MOGON Intro 103 - Cluster Computing

Who Should Attend?

• All new MOGON users. 

Prerequisites

• Bash proficiency at the level of MOGON Intro 101 or higher. You should be comfortable working in the shell and navigating files and directories.
• A fully set-up HPC account. We recommend completing MOGON Intro 102 beforehand to get the most out of the course.

What You will Learn

This course provides an introduction to high-performance computing (HPC) and shows you how to make effective use of MOGON. It covers the basics of running jobs on a cluster, working with parallel computing, and understanding the tools and systems behind MOGON. Topics include: 

• Parallel Computing and HPC 
  • Introduction to the basic concepts and applications of HPC
  • Overview of parallel computing and its advantages
• Job Scheduling 
  • Introduction to Slurm, the workload manager used on MOGON
  • Learn how to submit and manage serial and parallel batch jobs
• The MOGON Cluster
  
  • Overview of MOGON's architecture
  • Introduction to the cluster's main capabilities and resources
• Parallel Programming
  • Introduction to shared-memory parallelism (OpenMP)
  • Basics of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) for distributed-memory systems

The organization and coordination of this event are carried out by NHR Süd-West, a member of the National High Performance Computing (NHR) initiative in Germany. For more information, visit: https://nhrsw.de/