Learn to Use HPC Systems and Supercomputers

Gain insights into using HPC systems and supercomputers to solve large computational problems. Explore HPC components, software stacks, job schedulers, and parallel programming, including Open MP, MPI, and GPU coding.

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53 Lessons

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Course Overview

Learn to use High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems and solve large computational problems. This course assumes basic familiarity with the Bash command line environment found on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like environments. This course is of the first of its kind, should be your second step from my previous Educative course "Learn to Analyze Text Data in Bash Shell and Linux" You'll learn: - Intro to HPC Systems and Supercomputers - HPC system's basic components - HPC software stack - HPC job schedulers ...Show More

Course Content

Supercomputers and HPC clusters

Solve problems in supercomputing history, examples, cluster computing, and its benefits.

A Little bit of Supercomputing history Supercomputing examples

HPC cluster computers

Benefits of using cluster computing

Components of a HPC system

Discover the logic behind HPC components, including nodes for management, computation, storage, and user access.

Components of a HPC cluster Login node(s)Compute node(s)Master node(s)Storage node(s)

HPC software stack

Go hands-on with accessing HPC systems, data transfer, software lists, modules, and job schedulers.

Access to HPC Data Transfer HPC software list HPC software modules

Job Schedulers

PBS - Portable Batch System

Grasp the fundamentals of PBS for efficient job management and scripting in HPC systems.

Introduction to PBS

PBS basic commands PBS `qsub`PBS `qstat`PBS `qdel` command PBS `qalter`PBS job states PBS variables A simple PBS job script PBS interactive jobs PBS arrays PBS Matlab example

SLURM -Workload Manager

Solve problems in managing HPC with SLURM, from job execution to dependencies.

Introduction to Slurm Slurm commands A simple Slurm job Slurm distrbuted MPI and GPU jobs Slurm multi-threaded OpenMP jobs Slurm interactive jobs Slurm array jobs Slurm job dependencies

Parallel programming - OpenMP

8 Lessons

See how it works to utilize OpenMP for efficient parallel programming with threads and shared memory.

Parallel programming - MPI

5 Lessons

Build on MPI principles, program structures, and practical examples for effective parallel programming.

Parallel programming - GPU and CUDA

4 Lessons

Try out parallel programming with GPUs using CUDA for high-performance applications.

Conclusions and references

2 Lessons

Discover the logic behind using HPC systems, key commands, and essential references.

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