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Introduction to High Performance and High Throughput Computing

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Overview

Objectives

  • By the end of this course you should:

    • Understand key concepts around HPC and HTC
    • Be able to plan your work on Legion by:

      • Understanding Legion's hardware architecture
      • Understanding Legion's software stack
      • Writing simple Bash shell scripts
      • Writing job submission scripts to the batch scheduler
    • Be able to effectively use Research Computing services:

      • Learning about Research Computing structure and services
      • Issuing useful and successful support queries

Plan

Day Topic
Day 1 Introduction to HPC and HTC
Shell Scripting
Day 2 Legion Components
Using the Scheduler
Policies and Support
Individual Issues