Shaheen HPC 101 training Fall 2019

Dear Colleagues, 

KAUST Supercomputing Lab invites you to attend the “HPC 101 Shaheen II Training”, which will be held on Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 from 9:45 am till noon in the auditorium between Building 4 and 5. 

The aim of this course is to give users of Shaheen II, Cray XC40 supercomputer, an introductory overview of the system and its usage, and to help them make efficient use of their allocated resources.

The workshop agenda is as follows and the slides are here attached:

• 9:45 am              Coffee and Registration
• 10:00 am            Overview of Shaheen and Neser Architecture
• 10:10 am            How to get an account and access to Shaheen
• 10:20 am            Runtime environment and job scheduling
• 10:25 am            HPC workflow on Shaheen
• 10:35 am            Applications software example: CFD application
• 10:45 am            Programming environment on Shaheen and Neser
• 11:00 am            Overview of I/O system on Shaheen
• 11:15 am            Data Science Workflows on Shaheen
• 11:30 am            Questions and open discussions with KSL team

Seats are limited, so please register at https://hpc.kaust.link/Shaheen101_Fall2019

Shaheen Clinic

When: Same day, Wednesday September 11th, 2:00pm – 4:30pm

Where: Building 1, Level 0, Room: 115

The event will be followed by the Shaheen Clinic, a “talk to the experts” session when you can have face to face interaction with the trainers and the Shaheen support staff.

Objective:

• One-to-One consultancy with Shaheen support staff to solve your problems on Shaheen and Neser
• Provide suggestions and advise to accelerate your application execution
• Discuss various challenges or issues during your job executions
• Getting more familiar with Shaheen environment: e.g. job submissions, queues, architectures…
• Collaborative work with your projects
• If the 30-min scheduled time is not sufficient to provide solution or unable to address the issue, a follow-up meeting will be scheduled and/or RT-Ticket will be created
• If you have any questions, please contact us at training@hpc.kaust.edu.sa

KAUST Supercomputing Core Laboratory (KSL)