Tutorials
HPC@LSU invites you to attend our weekly training scheduled every Wednesdays, except university holidays.
The training sessions are subject to cancellation due to lack of registrations, so please register if you plan on attending. Registration closes in the afternoon on the day prior to the training.
Click on the tutorial topic to obtain more information and registration details. Remote connect links to attend the training will be provided via email to all registered participants.
Note: The Slide and Support Materials links are placeholders until content is added after the tutorial.
Summer 2024 Training Schedule
1. July 24,2024: LONI QB4 Launch Workshop
| Topic | LONI QB4 Launch Workshop |
| Date | July 24,2024 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | LONI QB4 is a 4.3 PetaFlop peak performance cluster with 35,008 CPU cores and 144 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, comprised of 547 compute nodes connected by 200 Gbps Infiniband fabric:
This tutorial will provide an overview of the LONI QB-4 cluster, designed to enhance computational capabilities for HPC workloads, especially those utilizing GPUs. Participants will gain insights into the architecture and advantages of this new system, along with practical guidance on utilizing the Slurm workload manager. In addition, the session will include a review of the results of some performance benchmarks, demonstrating the cluster's efficiency and potential to accelerate various computational workloads. Attendees will leave with a foundational understanding of how to leverage QB-4 for their research projects effectively. |
| Registration | Click here |
2. July 31,2024: Basic Shell Scripting
| Topic | Basic Shell Scripting |
| Date | July 31,2024 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | For anyone who works in a Linux/Unix environment, a working knowledge of shell scripting is essential and will boost their efficiency and productivity tremendously. For this tutorial, we will focus on bash as it is one of the most popular shells. This tutorial will include topics such as creating simple bash scripts, flow control, command line arguments, regex, grep, awk and sed. This is a practical tutorial, so we will provide examples and/or hands-on exercises for most of the covered materials.
Prerequisites
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Past Tutorials
We offer many tutorial sessions for our users both on campus and online. The training topics include but are not limited to:
- Introduction to Linux
- HPC user environment
- Version control with git
- Pythong and R programming
- Deep learning basics
- Parallel programming
To read descriptions or access PDF's of the slides from past tutorials Past Tutorials.