High-performance computing (HPC)

Tuesday, November 15
9:30am–4:30pm Pacific Time

This course will start at 9:30am Pacific Time and will run until 12:30pm. Its format will be a combination of several interactive Zoom sessions and pre-recorded reading and video materials in-between the Zoom sessions. Course materials will be added here shortly before the start of the course.

Course materials will be added here shortly before the start of the course.

There is a single free registration for the entire autumn school.

This course is an introduction to High-Performance Computing on the Alliance clusters.

Instructor: Alex Razoumov (SFU)

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of the Linux Bash shell. We will provide guest accounts to one of our Linux systems.

Software: All attendees will need a remote secure shell (SSH) client installed on their computer in order to participate in the course exercises. On Windows we recommend the free Home Edition of MobaXterm. On Mac and Linux computers SSH is usually pre-installed (try typing ssh in a terminal to make sure it is there).

Zoom
9:30am-9:45am Pacific
Opening morning session

On your own
Overview (20 min)
Basics (28 min)
Languages, tools and parallel programming (61 min)

Zoom
11:30am-12:30pm Pacific
Mid-day session

On your own
Scheduling (66 min)
Best practices, file sharing, and summary (9 min)

Zoom
2:30pm-4:30pm Pacific
Late-afternoon session