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Learn to Use HPC Systems and Supercomputers

Gain insights into using HPC systems and supercomputers to solve large computational problems. Explore HPC components, software stacks, job schedulers, and parallel programming, including Open MP, MPI, and GPU coding.

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Learn to use High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems and solve large computational problems. This course assumes basic familiarity with the Bash command line environment found on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like environments. This course is of the first of its kind, should be your second step from my previous Educative course "Learn to Analyze Text Data in Bash Shell and Linux" You'll learn: - Intro to HPC Systems and Supercomputers - HPC system's basic components - HPC software stack - HPC job schedulers and batch systems (PBS and Slurm with demos) - Introduction to parallel programming (Open MP, MPI and GPU coding) Video demos are included, I think it is a must have course for students, researchers, big data analysts, and developers. It will help you to utilize High Performance Computing systems at your institution. Non-interactive course. More details at: www.scientificprogramming.io/learn-hpc

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53 Lessons

Supercomputers and HPC clusters

4 Lessons

Solve problems in supercomputing history, examples, cluster computing, and its benefits.

A Little bit of Supercomputing history

Supercomputing examples

HPC cluster computers

Benefits of using cluster computing

Components of a HPC system

5 Lessons

Discover the logic behind HPC components, including nodes for management, computation, storage, and user access.

Components of a HPC cluster

Compute node(s)

Master node(s)

Storage node(s)

HPC software stack

5 Lessons

Go hands-on with accessing HPC systems, data transfer, software lists, modules, and job schedulers.

PBS - Portable Batch System

12 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of PBS for efficient job management and scripting in HPC systems.

A simple PBS job script

PBS interactive jobs

PBS arrays

PBS Matlab example

SLURM -Workload Manager

8 Lessons

Solve problems in managing HPC with SLURM, from job execution to dependencies.

Introduction to Slurm

Slurm commands

A simple Slurm job

Slurm distrbuted MPI and GPU jobs

Slurm multi-threaded OpenMP jobs

Slurm interactive jobs

Slurm array jobs

Slurm job dependencies

Parallel programming - OpenMP

8 Lessons

See how it works to utilize OpenMP for efficient parallel programming with threads and shared memory.

OpenMP

OpenMP basics

Open MP - clauses

OpenMP - worksharing constructs

OpenMP- Hello world!

Open MP - reduction and parallel `for-loop`

OpenMP - section parallelization

OpenMP vector addition

Parallel programming - MPI

5 Lessons

Build on MPI principles, program structures, and practical examples for effective parallel programming.

MPI - Message Passing Interface

MPI program stucture

MPI - hello world!

MPI send/ receive

MPI `ping-pong` send and receive example

Parallel programming - GPU and CUDA

4 Lessons

Try out parallel programming with GPUs using CUDA for high-performance applications.

GPUs - graphics processing units

GPU Programming - CUDA

CUDA - hello world!

CUDA - vector additon demo

Conclusions and references

2 Lessons

Discover the logic behind using HPC systems, key commands, and essential references.

Conclusion

References

Certificate of Completion

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