Intro to High Performance Computing (HPC) with the Rice NOTS cluster

Recommended prerequisites:

Attend either the Carpentries session on the Bash shell (Aug. 14-15, 2024) or “The World is at your Command…line”, or have basic familiarity with the topics covered (using the bash shell, remote access using ssh, navigating and managing files and data in Linux).

Overview:

Supercomputing is for everyone! Whether you're trying to run an OCR job on tens of thousands of pages, or trying to run a statistical simulation that's taking hundreds of hours on your local machine, supercomputing helps you get these jobs done faster, and even think about designing bigger jobs. 

This workshop will cover concepts needed to run resource intensive software and code on Rice's high-performance cluster computer, including:

  • Basic parallel computing concepts
  • Getting access to NOTS and HPC resources
  • Rice NOTS architecture review
  • Understanding job scheduling on shared computing resources: partitions, wall times, and the SLURM scheduler
  • NOTS filesystems and data management
  • Managing software environments using modules (LMOD)
  • Important commands for managing and monitoring jobs
  • Demonstration of parallel code execution using the NOTS cluster

Contact information:

Please contact researchdata@rice.edu if you have questions about the Data@Rice workshop series.

Date/Time
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Location
Fondren Library Basement B43A (Collaboration Space)
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