Introduction to CoreHPC

Description

Are you reaching the limits of your laptop? Are you new to working on clusters and high performance computing (HPC)? New to CoreHPC, or migrating from Wynton? This workshop will start with basic definitions for computing in a cluster environment, including types of nodes, partitions and containers. We will cover how to access the cluster, transfer files, submit jobs and run analyses. By the end of this workshop you should be comfortable with...

• Getting around CoreHPC
• Transferring files to and from CoreHPC
• Submitting jobs to the SLURM queue system
• Launching pipelines
• Finding available software modules and container resources
• Building and running your own custom containers

Learning Path

   This is an intermediate workshop in the Computer Skills series. Prior experience with command line is required. See introductory workshop:

• Introduction to unix command line

Materials

Workshop slides coming soon.

Pre-workshop Instructions

1. Follow the instructions to create a CoreHPC account if you do not have one: (link TBD)

2. To ensure that you can connect to CoreHPC during the workshop:

• Connect to the UCSF or Gladstone VPNs. For additional information, please contact your IT department. (additional CoreHPC connection/2FA details TBD)

Online Learning

• Official CoreHPC documentation (link TBD)
• Please see the slides for additional resources