[IITAC-users] TCHPC Training Courses in July 2011

[Paddy Doyle]

Hi,

The following courses will be delivered by the Trinity Centre for High
Performance Computing (TCHPC) in July 2011.  They are practical,
hands-on courses which are free and open to all TCD staff or post-graduate
students.

- An Introduction to TCHPC Systems
- An Introduction to Scientific Visualisation
- An Introduction to Linux 
- An Introduction to CUDA

If you or your students would like to attend any of these courses,
please email:

training at tchpc.tcd.ie


Please note that pre-registration is required to secure your place on the
course.  Places are limited, so early registration is important.

For more details about these and other training courses which TCHPC runs,
please see: http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/support/training/

For more details about TCHPC see http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/



Course Details:

Introduction to TCHPC Systems
-----------------------------

This half-day course is suitable for students and researchers who are new to
TCHPC, and have little experience with resource management software and
batch queueing systems, such as SLURM.

You may also find this course beneficial if you have used the PBS/Torque batch
software previously, and would like to find out how to convert your
submissions scripts to SLURM.

Among the topics covered will be:

- Systems and Service available at TCHPC
- Access to our systems.
- Module Environment.
- Resource Allocation.
- Job submission and monitoring.
- Scheduling policies.

Timetable:

This is a half-day course. We will be running two separate sessions, so you
can either attend:

- Mon 4th July 09:30 - 13:00

OR

- Thu 18th July 09:30 - 13:00

Venue:
The TCHPC computer lab on the second floor of the Lloyd Building, Room 2.12.


Introduction to Scientific Visualisation
--------------------------------------------------------

This half-day course is suitable for students and researchers who want to
learn more about basic scientific visualisation techniques. A general
introduction will be given, focusing on different types of datasets and
different techniques that can be used to visualize them. The course will not
focus in any particular visualisation package, as each one of them is too
specific.

You may also find this course beneficial if you have are using any kind of
visualisation software such as Amira, Pymol, Paraview, etc.

Among the topics covered will be:

- Basic visualisation technical concepts.
- Scientific visualisation techniques.
- Dataset examples and solutions.
- Commonly used software and showcases.
- An overview of GPGPU
- Introduction to the TCHPC visualisation hardware.

Timetable:

This is a half-day course:

- Mon 4th July 14:00 - 17:00

Venue:
The TCHPC Visualisation Facility on the second floor of the Lloyd Building, Room 2.01.


Introduction to Linux 
---------------------

This course is suitable for students and researchers who wish to use
Linux in their research but who have little experience of it. Among
the topics covered will be:

- Use of the command line
- Customising the shell
- File and directory management
- Basic text editing
- Useful commands and utilities
- Text processing

Timetable:

The course will be held over four mornings commencing Tuesday 5th July and
finishing on Friday 8th July:

- Tue 5th July 09:30 - 13:00
- Wed 6th July 09:30 - 13:00
- Thu 7th July 09:30 - 13:00
- Fri 8th July 09:30 - 13:00

Venue:
The TCHPC computer lab on the second floor of the Lloyd Building, Room 2.12.


Introduction to CUDA
--------------------

This course is suitable for students and researchers who want to learn how
to use the NVIDIA (tm) CUDA C library to conduct GPGPU computing on graphics
cards. A general introduction will be given, and then the course will focus
on the hardware of the graphic cards, and how to use that knowledge to your
advantage by using specific library calls and different parts of the memory.

You may also find this course beneficial if you already have experience with
other parallel libraries such as MPI or OpenMP.

Among the topics covered will be:

- Introduction to CUDA.
- Different kinds of GPU memory and function calls.
- Installing the CUDA SDK
- How to access the CUDA machines and queue in TCHPC
- Basic CUDA programming
- Advanced CUDA programming

Timetable:

The course will be held over four mornings commencing Tuesday 19th July and
finishing on Friday 22nd July:

- Mon 19th July 09:30 - 13:00
- Tue 20th July 09:30 - 13:00
- Wed 21th July 09:30 - 13:00
- Thu 22th July 09:30 - 13:00

Venue:
The TCHPC computer lab on the second floor of the Lloyd Building, Room 2.12.


Additional Information
----------------------

- The courses are free to TCD staff and students, but re-registration is
required to secure a place. Email training at tchpc.tcd.ie to book a course.

- Morning sessions commence at 9:30 and continue until 13:00, with a 30
minute break at 11:00.

- Afternoon sessions commence at 14:00 and continue until 17:00 with a
break for about 20 minutes at 15:30.

- Refreshments are not provided during breaks or lunch.


Kind regards,
Paddy

-- 
Paddy Doyle
Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing,
Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/