Login to: myLSU : LSU HPC User Profile
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Login to: myLSU : LSU HPC User Profile
Login to: LONI HPC User Profile : HPC Open OnDemand Portal
HPC@LSU provides computational resources to the LSU campus and LONI members statewide. Provided services, such as the help desk and consulting, are available to all supported users. Online training sessions and and other education resources are available to all. Click Here to learn more about available resources.
LSU HPC resources are available to all LSU Faculty and their affiliates while LONI resources are available to all LONI Member Institution Faculty and their affilates. Click Here to learn about account policies.
HPC@LSU conducts weekly system status and information meetings, to which users are invited. Click Here for more information.
User Guides for all HPC resources are provided Here.
Detailed guides for all software installed on HPC clusters as well as example scripts are provided here. Installed software is listed by name, type and cluster.
A Help Desk and other support services are also provided.Read More
HPC@LSU offers a sequence of tutorials every semester.
1. July 3,2024: HPC User Environment 1
| Topic | HPC User Environment 1 |
| Date | July 3,2024 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | This training provides an overview of the HPC/LONI general account and allocation policies, general cluster architecture and HPC hardware and software environment. Prerequisites
Slides |
| Registration | Click here |
2. July 10,2024: HPC User Environment 2
| Topic | HPC User Environment 2 |
| Date | July 10,2024 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | This training provides an overview of the HPC hardware and software environment, queuing system, compiling programs, writing submit scripts, running and monitoring jobs on HPC systems. Prerequisites
Slides Downloads |
| Registration | Click here |
3. 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 |
4. 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
Slides Downloads |
| Registration | Click here |
The tutorials cover Linux/Unix, parallel programming for HPC systems, in-depth application coverage, and ... Read More