Introduction to
High Performance Computing

25 - 26 April 2022 | 09:30 - 13:00 BST | Check Your Timezone

Instructors:
Lajos Kalmar (MRC Toxicology), Greta Markert (CRUK), Chloe Pacyna (Sanger), Tom Smith (MRC Toxicology)

Knowing how to work on a High Performance Computing (HPC) system is an essential skill for applications such as bioinformatics, big-data analysis, image processing, machine learning, parallelising tasks, and other high-throughput applications. In this course we will cover the basics of High Performance Computing, what it is and how you can use it in practice. This is a hands-on workshop, which should be accessible to researchers from a range of backgrounds and offering several opportunities to practice the skills we learn along the way. By the end of this course you will be able to independently work on a typical HPC server.

Before the Course

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On day 1:
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During the Course

Timetable

Day 1

09:35 - 09:50 Welcome

09:50 - 10:45 Introduction to HPC | Lajos

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Working on a HPC cluster with VS Code | Chloe

12:00 - 12:10 Break

12:10 - 13:00 Using the SLURM job scheduler | Chloe

Day 2

09:35 - 10:00 Recap: SLURM job scheduler | Chloe

10:00 - 10:30 Parallelising Jobs with Arrays | Hugo

10:30 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 11:10 Job dependencies | Lajos

11:10 - 11:20 Break

11:20 - 11:45 Moving Files | Greta

11:45 - 12:30 Managing Software | Greta

12:30 - 13:00 HPC resources at the University of Cambridge | Lajos

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