Wednesday, 8 June
Research Computing at Brown
Today's tutorials will occur along three tracks running concurrently. Each tab below corresponds to one of these tracks. The tutorials associated with each track are listed on the relevant tab.
Building Software on Oscar | 9:30 - 11:00 EDT
Learn how to build and install software packages on Oscar. Topics covered include: make, cmake, compiler options on Oscar, pip, building python packages from source, and python virtual environments.
slides | exercises | CMake example | video
Computing with GPUs on Oscar | 11:00 - 12:30 EDT
A general Introduction to GPU architectures available on Oscar, using NGC container images to leverage RT cores on higher-end GPUs, and optimizing GPU jobs for better filesystem IO.
Slurm for Beginners | 1:30 - 3:00 EDT
A primer on submitting jobs to the job scheduler on Oscar. Some basic familiarity with Unix/Linux systems is assumed. Topics covered include: an overview of the use of Slurm for resource allocation, submitting jobs to Slurm, and using Bash scripts to configure and submit jobs to Slurm.
Advanced Slurm | 3:00 - 4:30 EDT
This workshop is for people who are already familiar with Slurm, but would like to use Slurm's more powerful features. Topics covered include: dependencies for conditional execution of jobs, job arrays for parameter sweeps, dealing with hundreds or thousands of small tasks, how to limit the number of jobs running at once, and how to cancel multiple jobs.
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