HPC Introduction 03/2020
Introduction to HPC at the University Oldenburg
Due to the anti-Corona measures the course will be given online in a video conference. See Video Conference below.
Description
This 3-day course is aimed at HPC beginners as well as experienced users who wish to learn about HPC and the use of the local clusters CARL and EDDY. The course will cover the following topics:
- General Introduction to HPC and the use of CARL and EDDY
- Introduction to the Job Scheduler SLURM
- Programming in an HPC Environment
- Introduction to Parallel Programming (MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC)
- Introduction to Matlab Distributed Compute Server (MDCS)
The course will consist of lectures and hands-on practical part. Special topics may be covered if requested.
Date, Time and Registration
The course will be held by Stefan Harfst and Wilke Trei:
- Date: March 30 – April 1, 2020
- Time: 10:00 to 17:00
- Room: online, Meeting in Stud.IP
The schedule for the course can be found here.
We kindly ask you to register for the course in Stud.IP (look for course No. 5.WR.1036 in case the link does not work). If you have problems please send us an e-mail.
Video Conference
This time, the course is given in the form of a video conference which will be a new experience for most, it certainly is for the lecturers. If you want to participate, you should make the following preparations":
- sign up for the course as mentioned above
- have a computer connected to the internet available during the time of course
- your computer should also be able to connect to the HPC cluster, for this you need to install and use the GlobalProtect client to establish a VPN.
