SNIC Training News Letter
No 144, 14 January 2022
– Published 14 January 2022
Welcome to the first edition of the SNIC training newsletter for 2022. The SNIC training team sends everyone their best wishes for the new year.
In this newsletter we newly offer courses aimed at new users of SNIC and high performance computing, an introduction to SNIC’s machine learning machine Alvis and an introduction to shared memory parallel computing with OpenMP. We remind on the VASP workshop. The popular support and discussion forum “SNIC zoom-in” is to restart in February.
Contents
- Training for new users
- Online introduction seminar for Vera users, 1 February 2022
- Online training seminar: An introduction to the UNIX/LINUX command-line, 9 February 2022 at 13:30
- Online training seminar: Cluster architecture and job submission, 16 February 2022 at 13:30
- Training to use the Alvis system, dedicated to machine learning
- Online introduction seminar for Alvis users, 3 February 2022
- Training on application software
- Online PRACE/SNIC workshop: "VASP Best Practices Workshop", Linköping, 22-23 February 2022
- Training in parallel computing
- Online training course: An introduction to shared memory parallel programming using OpenMP, 28 February - 3 March 2022
- Online interactive support and discussion forum
- SNIC zoom-in - a virtual open-house, 10 February from 14:00 until 15:00
Training for new users
Online introduction seminar for Vera users, 1 February 2022
Introduction seminar for Vera users. In this online seminar we will show you how to use Vera. Zoom meeting will be at 13:15-15:00.
Visit the C3SE website for more information.
Online training seminar: An introduction to the UNIX/LINUX command-line, 9 February 2022 at 13:30
This training seminar provides a first introduction to the UNIX/LINUX environment. It is aimed at new users of UNIX and will discuss UNIX skills required to work on a typical HPC cluster, such as provided by SNIC and LUNARC. Topics include manipulating files and directories, editing file contents and the development of simple scripts, such as required for job submission.
Time: 9 February at 13:30
For more information and registration visit the UNIX/LINUX command-line seminar page at LUNARC
Online training seminar: Cluster architecture and job submission, 16 February 2022 at 13:30
This event explains key features of a contemporary HPC cluster, such as deployed at LUNARC and throughout SNIC. It will explain the principles behind the job scheduler and how the scheduler can be used to accomplish your computational work in an efficient manner. The examples will utilise the SLURM scheduler, which is deployed on the SNIC resources.
Time: 16 February at 13:30
For more information and registration visit the Cluster architecture and job submission seminar page at LUNARC
Training to use the Alvis system, dedicated to machine learning
Online introduction seminar for Alvis users, 3 February 2022
In this online seminar we will show you how to use Alvis. Zoom meeting will be at 13:15-17:00. The second part of this seminar will be an optional workshop where users can go through a tutorial with help available and on reserved nodes on Alvis. To get access to the reserved resources you need to request membership to project SNIC 2021/7-120 two days before the seminar at the latest.
Visit the C3SE website for more information.
Training on application software
Online PRACE/SNIC workshop: "VASP Best Practices Workshop", Linköping, 22-23 February 2022
In this online workshop, including seminars and hands-on sessions, we will consider how to run the Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP) efficiently on supercomputers. The workshop is mostly suitable for beginners and the focus will be on best practices for running VASP calculations. The hands-on part will be done at the Tetralith cluster, NSC, LiU. Parts of the presentations (to be made available for download) can also be of interest for advanced users.
Time: Tuesday 22 February 10:00 - 17:00 and Wednesday 23 February 10:00 - 17:00
Information and registration page for the VASP workshop hosted by PRACE.
Materials for the workshop will be available from the VASP workshop page at NSC
Training in parallel computing
Online training course: An introduction to shared memory parallel programming using OpenMP, 28 February - 3 March 2022
OpenMP provides an efficient method to write parallel programs in C, C++ and Fortran. OpenMP programs are suitable for execution on shared memory architectures such as modern multi core systems or a single compute node of the HPC clusters deployed within SNIC. This event is a collaboration between HPC2N and LUNARC.
This course will introduce participants to the shared-memory model for parallel programming and the OpenMP application-programming interface. In many cases OpenMP allows an existing serial program to be upgraded incrementally, starting with the parallelisation of the most time-consuming parts of the code. Typically OpenMP programs are easily ported from one shared memory multi processor system to another one.
For more information and registration see:
Online interactive support and discussion forum
SNIC zoom-in - a virtual open-house, 10 February from 14:00 until 15:00
You are invited to a virtual meeting room. Inside the meeting room we like to discuss services offered by the SNIC centres and how they can be used for your computational needs, help you process your data and visualise your results. Participants are highly encouraged to pose their own questions.
Next session: 10 February from 14:00 until 15:00
For more information and details on access, please visit the LUNARC zoom-in page.
Training overview
SNIC training webpage
In addition to these news letters we also provide a SNIC training webpage.
This webpage currently gives an overview on all courses currently planned. It provides links to more information and the actual registration. The webpage also includes training which is expected to be mostly of interest to individual SNIC centres. Information will be added to this page as it becomes available.