[IITAC-users] TCHPC Training Courses in July 2011

Fri Jun 3 09:38:18 IST 2011

Slight correction in the dates of the "Introduction to CUDA" course - the dates
should have read:

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

(the dates were listed correctly, but the days were not)

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Kind regards,
Paddy

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 05:09:13PM +0100, Paddy Doyle wrote:

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