Introduction to High Performance Computing for Super Computing Wales: Introduction to Super Computing Wales

Introduction to Super Computing Wales

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This lesson introduces using the Super Computing Wales HPC system.

Prerequisites

Some basic experience of the Unix command line is expected. The material covered in the Software Carpentry Introduction to Unix Shell (http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/) is more than enough to cover this.

Schedule

Setup Download files required for the lesson
00:00 1. SCW Introduction
00:10 2. Logging in to SCW How can do I login to SCW?
00:45 3. Filesystems and Storage What is the difference between scratch and home?
01:30 4. Running Jobs with Slurm What is the difference between scratch and home?
02:25 5. Working with Modules and Installing Software
03:10 6. Optimising for Parallel Processing How can I run several tasks from a single Slurm job.
03:25 7. HPC Best Practice
03:25 Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.