The HPC group holds regular User Group Meetings with updates, presentations on special topics and Q&A.
September 2020 User Group
Agenda:
DigITs Updates:
The new team - Advanced Computing and Technology Group
Cloud Center of Excellence - CCoE
HPC Infrastructure Updates
Systems retirement and Data Management
Performance tuning and troubleshooting
Slides: hpc-ug-20200909.pdf
Video: hpc-ug-20200909.mp4
Chat Q&A: hpc-ug-20200909.txt
April 2020 User Group
Agenda:
Cluster status
Remote Access
Unix permissions and ACLS
Cluster updates and new GPU scatter queue
Slides from Apr 2020 UG: HPC UG 2020-04-2.pptx
November 2019 User Group
Agenda:
General HPC infrastructure updates.
Lilac and Juno cluster utilization.
New LSF GPU features.
Storage options.
/scratch & /fscratch cleanup policy.
Luna cluster retirement.
Jupyter Notebook
Slides from Nov 2019 UG: UG_10_2019.cp1.pptx
March 2019 Juno User Group
Agenda:
The Juno cluster is now in production.
New compute nodes.
Juno policies and SLAs.
How to run jobs in SLA. Non-SLA jobs.
Why won’t my job run?
How to get help on Juno?
Documentation wiki
Slides from March 21 2019 User Group Juno_UG_032019_final.pdf
October 2018 Lilac User Group
Agenda:
GPFS 5.0.1 storage available on Lilac
New GPFS 5.0.1 storage, performance benchmarks
July network upgrade
LSF update
How to execute jobs on Lilac (LSF)
Job monitoring, LSF, and Grafana
Documentation wiki
How to get help on Lilac
Slides from Oct 2018 UG:Lilac_UG_102018.pdf
September 2018 Juno User Group
Agenda:
The Juno cluster (successor to the Luna cluster)
Why is Juno replacing Luna?
Overview of LSF configuration changes, particularly differences from Luna
How to execute jobs on Juno (LSF)
Software available on Juno
How to get help on Luna/Juno?
July network upgrade
Slides from Sep 27 2018 User Group meeting (updated Nov 28) Juno_UG_092018_final.pdf
September 2017 User Group
Agenda:
HPC website and new wiki pages and documentation
LILAC LSF software upgrade overview
LILAC LSF software upgrade plan
LILAC LSF new queues
LUNA upgrade 2017 Q4
Slides from Sep 2017 UG: UG_09202017_final .pptx
June 2017 Lilac User Group
Agenda:
LILAC computational resources
LILAC LSF queues
LSF CPU job submission
LSF CPU/GPU job submission
LSF job monitoring
Useful LSF commands
Slides from June 22 2017 UG: LSF_UG_1.potx