Large scale computations and data analysis on the Hábrók cluster (Basic)

Often, the power of the desktop PC or laptop is not enough to perform simulations or analyses of huge datasets.

The Hábrók cluster with more than 19000 CPU cores can help you in tackling this problem. In this four hour course you will learn how to work with this system.

Contents

The following topics will be discussed:

• What the cluster can do for you
• How to get access to the system
• How to work with the Linux command-line environment
• How to transfer data to and from the cluster
• How to find, and get access to the available software
• How to start and monitor calculations on the cluster

The course has been split in two parts. The first part addresses logging in to the system and the use of the Linux environment. The second part will discuss the setup of the cluster, the available software and starting real calculations. For people who already have knowledge about the Linux command-line environment it is possible to only attend the second part.

All the materials for this course are available on our wiki here.

Course format

The course will be a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises, in which you will work with the concepts explained.

Aim

After the course you should understand what a computer cluster is, how to log in to the system, how to work with the command-line environment, be able to transfer data, and submit calculations as jobs to the system.

Detailed information on the content of this workshop is on our wiki.

_{This is a Research Support Hub workshop. The Research Support Hub is a CIT initiative to support all researchers and PhD-candidates throughout the University of Groningen on data management, geo-services, statistics, machine Learning, AI-tools and high performance computing.}