Intro_to_NeuroHPC April 27th, 2020

An outline for a day training at UA in the neurobiology group.

Goals

• Introduction to what an HPC is, why you use it, how to us it, and be able to use it for their research.
• GPUs and different kinds of nodes/compute possible

Schedule (9:30-15:00; Main Library RM 252B)

• 9:00 - 9:30 Coffee and Registration
• 9:30 - 10:30 First section
  • Intro to HPC
    • Log on
  • Using Open On Demand
    • Requesting Jobs and Resources
    • Jupyter notebooks
    • What is an HPC? What is the architecture and why should I care?
• 10:00 - 10:15 Break
• 10:15 - 12:00
  • Uploading/Downloading Data and Dealing with Data
  • Getting Software
    • Modules
    • Containers (Dianne's containers)
• 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
• 13:00 - 14:00
  • Analysis
• 14:15 - 15:00
  • Viewing Results
• Doors close at 16:00

Additional Resources

• Research Bazaar Arizona
  • Annual Event is May 18-20
  • Weekly events Tuesday and Thursdays