UL HPC School - June 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, together with leading computational scientists of the UL and HPC technologists will offer instructions and practical sessions on a variety of topics, including:
- Access to and interaction with the UL HPC infrastructures
- HPC challenges, especially as regards data and storage management
- HPC workflow management (for sequential and parallel tasks)
- HPC Programming and Usage of the main software available on the platform (Matlab, R, MPI, physics, chemistry, bioinformatics tools) and services (Galaxy) using the platform
- Scientific visualization
- Software environment management
- Virtualization on the clusters linked to the Grid’5000 platform
The aim is to cover basic as well as advanced usage of the platform. Whether you have no HPC experience or are an advanced user, don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn more about the efficient usage of the system.
June 25th and 26th, 2015, on the Limpertsberg campus, the “BS 3.03 Auditorium (Sciences Building)”
Program
All sessions will take place at the Limpertsberg Campus, with the main track in the BS 3.03 Auditorium.
Important You are expected to bring your laptop for all sessions since there will be no workstation available on site.
All tutorials proposed as practical sessions will be available on GitHub. The detailed program is available here.
Agenda - Day 1 (June 25th, 2015)
PS = Practical Session using your laptop
Agenda - Day 2 (June 26th, 2015)
Important Please note that the rooms for the parallel Tracks 1 and 2 are not the same as for the Day 1 sessions.
PS = Practical Session using your laptop
Practical information
Location
The HPC school will be organized at the Limpertsberg campus of the University of Luxembourg.
University of Luxembourg, campus Limpertsberg
162a, avenue de la Faïencerie
L-1511 Luxembourg
49°37’24.3”N, 6° 6’43.6”E (49.623406, 6.112102)
Transport
By bus, from the airport
Take the bus 16 (every 10/25 minutes), get off at stop Fondation Pescatore then cross the street and take bus 2 or 4 (every 20 minutes), get off at stop “Lycée Technique Michel Lucius” and walk down rue Guillaume Capus.
By bus, from the train station
Several choices:
- Bus 19 (every 20 minutes), get off at stop Limpertsberg, Centre Universitaire
- Bus 2 or 4 (every 20 minutes), get off at stop “Lycée Technique Michel Lucius” and walk down rue Guillaume Capus.
More information: Mobilitait Zentral
By car
You can park your car on the campus, or more probably at parking areas available in the nearby streets.