Tuesday Tools & Techniques for Supercomputing

🗓️ 16, 23 April & 7, 14 May 2024

Do you use supercomputers in your research work? Are you curious about making your computing faster and more efficient? Join us for TTT4HPC: four self-contained episodes on tools and techniques for supercomputing. It is a great chance to enhance your computational skills. What you will learn is also used a lot in industry and research environments whenever large-scale computations are needed.

The course happens online. Mornings (2h) lectures via TwitchTV. Afternoons (1.5h) hands-on exercises on Zoom with our HPC experts.
Episodes are self-contained, you can join only for the episodes that are useful for your research.

Episode 1 – 16/04/2024 – HPC Resources: RAM, CPUs/GPUs, I/O

Focus on HPC computational resources, starting with understanding and managing memory, CPUs, and GPUs, monitoring computational processes and I/O, utilizing local disks and ramdisks, and extending into benchmarking and selecting job parameters.

Episode 2 – 23/04/2024 – Day-to-day working on clusters

Focus on software development on HPC, syncing data, interactive work with HPC, VScode

Episode 3 – 07/05/2024 – Containers on clusters

Focus on containers with Apptainer/Singularity, how to build containers for HPC, how to work with the filesystem and other practical examples with containers

Episode 4 – 14/05/2024 – Parallelization and workflows

Content: focus on parallelization with HPC, efficient parameter sweeps, workflow automation, hyperscaling pitfalls

Registration and more info

For more information and registration, please visit https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/ttt4hpc-2024/index.html.

Lesson material

Interested in going deeper within the supercomputing world? Are you confident that you can use the tools and techniques for supercomputing?
Follow our lesson material at your own pace.