Introduction and setup
Overview
Teaching: 15 min
Exercises: 15 minQuestions
How can I prepare?
How will we be learning?
Objectives
Set expectations for engagement and behavior
Acknowledgement of country
We wish to acknowledge the custodians of the land we reside on, for the developers of these lessons, these are the Wadjuk (Perth region) people of the Nyoongar nation. We would like to pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging and we acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
Overview
This training was developed by ADACS at the request of Kieran Luken as part of their 2022B training project. This course is aimed at researchers who are new to using HPC facilities and is intended to be an overview of HPC concepts, how to run jobs, how to efficiently make use of the available resources, and to find out what HPC facilities they can access.
This workshop has been developed in the style of Software Carpentries (hence the site layout) but is not an official Carpentries lesson. Some of the content is intended for learners to read, think, and ask questions, some of it will require learners to write code or use the HPC facility for themselves, and other parts will be treated as a discussion session where no or little HPC interaction will be needed.
Required software / services
You will need:
- Access to Teams/Webex video conferencing system (depending on which works on the day!)
- A bash terminal
- Access to OzSTAR (see below)
- A zest for life
See instructions on the home page
An account on OzSTAR
You will need to have a login to the OzSTAR supercomputer in order to complete some of the exercises for this course. See these instructions for how you can obtain an account.
Once you have an account you’ll need to request to join the group oz983.
Obtaining an account can take up to 2 days, joining a project will be faster because it only requires the approval of the group admin which is Paul Hancock.
Assumed knowledge
- (linux) command line / bash SWC Lesson, ADACS Lesson
- ssh login
- command line text editor (emacs/vim/nano)
- Python scripting SWC Lesson, ADACS Lesson
Key Points
Ask questions, experiment, and help others
Everyone is here to learn and that means making mistakes