HPC Tutorial No1

Part I

I. Cluster Overview:

1. System Overview
2. Available compilers
3. Modification of user environments via "module"
4. Available parallel environments
5. Available Libraries

Part II

II. Introduction to the usage of SGE:

1. General Job submission (specifying job requirements)
2. Single Slot jobs (how to compile submit and monitor status)
3. Parallel Jobs (openMPI, impi, smp)
4. Monitoring and Controlling jobs (qstat, qrsh, qacct)

III. Debugging:

1. Compiling programs for debugging
2. Tracking memory issues
3. Profiling

IV. Misc:

1. Logging in from outside the university
2. Mounting the HPC home directory
3. Parallel environment memory issue
4. Importance of allocating proper resources

Material: The slides related to the presentation can be found here here.

Part III

V. Exercises (Computer-Lab):

1. Simple example programs
2. Practical aspects not covered in Parts I+II