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UCIT and UC Libraries are partnering with the Ohio Supercomputer Center to offer two High Performance Computing (HPC) workshops on Thursday Oct. 9 in 475 Langsam Library (UC west campus).
Interested researchers, students and staff can register at http://webcentral.uc.edu/hslclass/
Introduction to High Performance Computing at OSC, 9:00am-12:00pm
Topics will include:
- HPC concepts
- Hardware and Software available at OSC
- Getting allocations and accounts
- How to connect and log in
- How to move data on and off the systems
- Introduction to batch processing
- Storage and file systems
Conquering the OSC Batch Environment, 1:00pm-5:00pm
Topics will include:
- The basics: Batch Environment, batch file format, job submission, job status, return files
- Optional resources: Nodes, cores, memory, accelerators, processing time, software, etc.
- Our virtual waiting room: The PBS batch system
- How to manage jobs
- How to use batch jobs to perform parallel processing
- Useful environment variables related specifically to the batch system.
Any questions can be directed to Jane Combs, UCIT (Research and Development), combsje@uc.edu or Ted Baldwin, UC Libraries (Science and Engineering Libraries), baldwitw@uc.edu