Linux CLI intro 1

• Matthew Cawood (CHPC)

Lab setup What & Why Linux (text vs. GUI)

Linux CLI intro 2

• William Phukungoane

Text editor Manipulating Files

Linux CLI intro 3

• Sakhile Masoka

Services, logs and debugging

Linux CLI intro 4

• Bryan Johnston

Practical 1 Overview

• Israel Tshililo

Intro to OpenNebula and tutorial basics

Practical 1

Practical 1 Recap

Intro to HPC

• Bryan Johnston

History, why/how, hardware/software, fields, careers, history of computers, von neumann, compilers

HPC Software 1

• Israel Tshililo

Software, services (NFS, NTP, Ganglia, scheduler), change management, environment variables, provisioning (PXE)

HPC Software 2

• Matthew Cawood

MPI - why, how, compiling MPI code, code example & runnng, mpi distributions, openMP code and example

HPC Applications & Users

• Andrew Gill

Theory: scientific fields & codes, HPC users, distributed codes

Practical 2 Overview

• Israel Tshililo

Practical 2

Practical 2 Recap

Hardware 1

• Bryan Johnston

Computer hardware x64, components, accelerators Dell pricelist examples

Hardware 2

• Matthew Cawood

HPC node specs, memory channels, redundancy, parallel FS, interconnects, racks+blades - density, SMP vs NUMA

Hardware Considerations

• Matthew Cawood

Communication, I/O, vectorisation, memory bandwidth

Schedulers

• Sakhile Masoka

Resource manager, workload manager, policies,practical job submissions

Practical 3 Overview

• Israel Tshililo

Practical 3

Practical 3 Recap

Parallel Computing Concepts

• Bryan Johnston

Amdahl's Law Lhadma's Law Moore's Law Concurrency

Code Compilation

• Matthew Cawood

Failed compiles, error messages, linking, environment, make clean, warnings, logs

Benchmarking

• Matthew Cawood

Special Topics

• Zama Mtshali

linux tricks: bash scripts, bash history, running commands remotely (ssh -t / pdsh)

Practical 4 Overview

• Israel Tshililo

Practical 4

Practical 4 Recap

HPC Usecase

• Cawood Matthew

Q&A

Practical time

Practical Time