Introduction to Supercomputing at JSC - Theory & Practice (training course, online)
Ilya Zhukov, Jolanta Zjupa
(Course no. 12520231 in the training programme 2023 of Forschungszentrum Jülich)
This course will take place as an online event and is exclusively targeted for users of the Jülich supercomputers. The link to the streaming platform will be provided to the registrants only.
Contents:
Research Centre Jülich provides cutting-edge high-performance computing resources to scientific groups and industry partners across Germany and Europe via the John von Neumann Institute for Computing. To help new users of JSC's supercomputers efficiently leverage their allocated resources, we offer an introductory course that covers system basics and best practices.
The course includes theoretical lectures held every afternoon from Tuesday to Thursday, and practical tutorials offered in the mornings from Wednesday to Friday. The tutorials are based on the previous afternoon's lectures and allow participants to put theory into practice. We cover a wide range of topics, starting from basic log-in procedures to intermediate-level techniques. Participants are free to choose the lectures that best match their needs and interests.
Topics covered include:
- User account management with the JuDoor portal
- System access via SSH, Jupyter, and UNICORE
- System configuration for JURECA and JUWELS
- File systems, I/O, and data management
- Software modules (compilers, MPI, math libraries, applications, debuggers, tools)
- Building software from source
- Submitting jobs via the resource manager
- Using GPUs
- Performance tuning
- Visualization
Contents level | in hours | in % |
|---|---|---|
Beginner's contents: | 17 h | 80 % |
Intermediate contents: | 4 h | 20 % |
Advanced contents: | 0 h | 0 % |
Community-targeted contents: | 0 h | 0 % |
Prerequisites:
- Your own laptop with Windows, GNU/Linux or macOS installed
- Knowledge of either C, C++ or Fortran (helpful)
Agenda
The preliminary agenda can be found on the registration page.
Target audience:
New users of the supercomputers in Jülich
Language:
This course is given in English.
Duration:
Three days
Dates:
Tuesday 30 May: 13:00-17:30
Wednesday 31 May & Thursday 1 June: 09:00-17:30
Friday 2 June: 09:00-12:00
Venue:
Online
Number of Participants:
maximum 100
Instructors:
JSC employees, representatives of Atos, Intel and ParTec
Contact:
- Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
- Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Room 323
- Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
- Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Room 324
Course material
Title
Note
Link
Publication Date
Title | Video |
|---|---|
Welcome and Introduction to JSC | Video (358 MB) |
HPC in a nutshell | Video (660 MB) |
Job Monitoring and User Portal | Video (810 MB) |
JupyterLab - Supercomputing in Your Browser | Video (666 MB) |
JUST - Jülich Storage Cluster | Video (515 MB) |
JSC Systems - JUWELS, JURECA and JUSUF | Video (501 MB) |
Uniform Resource Access - Compute and Cloud Resources at JSC | Video (480 MB) |
HPC Software – Modules, Libraries & Software | Video (286 MB) |
Batch Usage on JSC - Introduction to Slurm | Video (613 MB) |
Intel Tuning for JUWELS and JURECA | Video (1.3 GB) |
Deep Learning on Supercomputers | |
Remote Visualization at JSC (with ParaView) | Video (1.2 GB) |
HPC software – debugger and performance analysis tools | Video (903 MB) |
JUWELS & JURECA - Tuning for the platform, Usage of ParaStation MPI | Video (656 MB) |
GPU accellerators at JSC | Video (462 MB) |
Proper pinning prevents pretty poor performance | Video (276 MB) |
Tools Demo: BT-MZ with Score-P | Video (2 GB) |