Training

The following material gives information on training sessions and in most cases also gives links to slides and videos of past training sessions sponsored or given by the HPCC. Please also consult the material available on the HPCC User Guides page.

• Upcoming User Training Workshops
• Introduction to Linux for Scientific Computing
• New User Training for HPCC Resources
• XSEDE HPC Workshop Series
• Introduction to the Red Raider Cluster covering the transition between the previous Quanah and current RedRaider clusters and switch from Grid Engine to Slurm for batch scheduling.

Upcoming User Training Workshops

 

 

Introduction to Linux

This two-part hands-on class covers Linux topics that include an introduction to the bash command shell, directories and files, popular commands and concepts, compression and archival, and scripting. The training is open to HPCC and non-HPCC users. To make the best use of this user training, participants should already have requested and received HPCC access for their eRaider account, and installed and configured an SSH client on their computer for remote access. Participants without HPCC accounts should have access to a Linux on their own device (for example, Linux on the Mac or WSL on Windows) or elsewhere.

Upcoming Sessions:

• Part 1 - September 7th from 2pm to 4 pm & October 5th from 10am to 12pm
• Part 2 - September 9th from 2pm to 4 pm & October 7th from 10am to 12pm

Location: via Zoom

User Training Documents:

• Introduction to Linux 1 slides (posted February 2021)
• Introduction to Linux 2 slides (posted February 2021)

User Training Videos:

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New User Training

This class is intended to give an introduction on the capabilities and usage of the TTU HPCC resources. New users and those who would like to improve their knowledge of how to use and get the most out of HPCC resources are STRONGLY encouraged to attend these training sessions. To make the best use of this user training, participants should already have requested and received HPCC access for their eRaider account, and installed and configured an SSH client on their computer for remote access. Participants who have limited knowledge of Linux are strongly encouraged to attend TTU HPCC's "Introduction to Linux" training prior to attending the New User Training.

Upcoming Sessions:

• September 15th from 10am to 12pm & October 13th from 10am to 12pm

Location: via Zoom

User Training Documents:

• New User Training slides (posted June 2021)

User Training Videos:

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XSEDE HPC Workshop Series

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) will be presenting one and two-day workshops on various HPC topics; Big Data, GPU Programming using OpenACC, OpenMP, and MPI.

• Registration is required.
• Participants must bring their own laptops.
• Courses offered using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform.

 

Introduction to the Red Raider Cluster

The new RedRaider cluster is available now for all HPCC users following a maintenance shutdown January 4-21, 2021 to merge the previous Quanah CPU and new Nocona CPU and Matador GPU cluster components. To familiarize users in the details of the use of Slurm and all RedRaider cluster components, the HPCC held two sessions of Advanced User Training in December 2020 and January 2021. This training provided extensive information on using the new Red Raider cluster, submitting jobs to the new workload manager Slurm, and building and running applications for the new CPU AMD and GPU Nvidia architectures. Slides and a recording of the most recent session held January 19, 2021 are available below.

To make the best use of this user training, participants should already have requested and received HPCC access for their eRaider account, and installed and configured an SSH client on their computer for remote access.

Upcoming Sessions:

• This is a transitional training that had been discontinued.

User Training Documents:

• Introduction to Red Raider slides (posted January 2021)

User Training Videos:

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