Section 1: HPC basics

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What are the topics covered in Section 1?

Objectives

• To overview the topics of the Section 1.

This section covers the introduction to HPC computing:

• What is HPC, what is parallelization, which types of parallelization exist and how it’s connected to the computer and network architectures?
• What kinds of HPC are available in the astronomical community in general and in LSST network in particular?
• How do we access HPC Bura and what resources are available there?
• How to use the command line for executing our code on a remote computer?
• How to set up the virtual environment and use Python on Bura?
• What is workload manager, how resources are allocated in an HPC setting, and how to use Slurm?

Key Points

• The topics covered in this section are HPC intro, Bura HPC facility and Slurm workload manager.