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Workshop Information

On October 19, 2014, UC Libraries and UCIT co-sponsored two High Performance Computing workshops taught by staff of the Ohio Supercomputing Center (OSC).

Recordings, slides, and further details are available below.

10/9/14 Intro to High Performance Computing at OSC (basic session)

Topics covered included:

HPC concepts
Hardware and Software available at OSC
Getting allocations and accounts
How to connect and log in
How to move data on and off the systems
Introduction to batch processing
Storage and file systems

Presentation slides

10/9/14 Conquering the OSC Batch Environment (advanced, hands-on session)

Topics covered include:

The basics: Batch Environment, batch file format, job submission, job status, return files
Optional resources: Nodes, cores, memory, accelerators, processing time, software, etc
Our virtual waiting room: The PBS batch system
How to manage jobs
How to use batch jobs to perform parallel processing
Useful environment variables related specifically to the batch system

Presentation slides