UL HPC School - March 2015 
The University of Luxembourg operates since 2007 a High Performance Computing platform which currently features a total of nodes (in practice, computing cores) for a cumulative computing power estimated at TFlops.
The total raw storage capacity shared within the clusters is currently estimated at TB (NFS + Lustre).
The UL HPC management team will offer instructions and practical sessions with the aim to cover the basic usage of the platform for newcomers, on the following topics:
- Accessing and interacting with the UL HPC infrastructure
- HPC challenges, especially as regards data and storage management
- HPC workflow management
- Software environment deployment
New members of the UL or HPC beginners should not miss this opportunity to learn about the efficient usage of the HPC platform.
March 13th, 2015, on the Kirchberg campus, in B13 (morning) and A02 (afternoon)
Program
The sessions will take place at the Kirchberg Campus, in B13 and A02.
Important You are expected to bring your personal laptop for all sessions since there will be no workstation available on site.
All tutorials proposed as practical sessions are available on GitHub.
Agenda - March 13th, 2015
| March 13th | Presenter | Session title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10h00-11h00 | S. Varrette | Keynote: HPC platform @ UL: Overview and Usage | B13 |
| 11h00-12h00 | S. Varrette | PS1: Getting started: basic usage of the platform (ssh, scp, rsync, OAR, modules) | B13 |
| 12h00-13h30 | LUNCH | ||
| 13h30-14h15 | H. Cartiaux | PS2: HPC workflows with sequential jobs (C, Python, Java) | A02 |
| 14h15-15h00 | V. Plugaru | PS3: HPC workflows with parallel jobs (MPI, OpenMP) | A02 |
| 15h00-15h45 | M. Schmitt | PS4: Software environment deployment (RESIF and Vagrant) | A02 |
PS = Practical Session using your laptop
Practical information
Location
The HPC school will be organized at the Kirchberg campus of the University of Luxembourg.
University of Luxembourg, campus Kirchberg
6, rue Richard Coudenhove - Kalergi,
L-1359, Luxembourg (Kirchberg)
49°37’34.3”N 6°09’30.9”E (49.626201, 6.158596)
Transport
By bus, from the airport
Take the bus 16 (every 10/25 minutes), get off at stop Coudenhove-Kalergi
By bus, from the train station
Several choices:
- Bus 18 (every 8 minutes), get off at stop Université - Campus Kirchberg
- Bus 16, 192, 120, 1, get off at stop Coudenhove-Kalergi (after the Coque sport center of the Kirchberg plateau).
More information: Mobiliteits Zentral
By car
You can park your car on the campus, or more probably at the parking Adenauer