ICDS offers a series of training sessions on using the Roar supercomputer, formerly known as ICDS-ACI. New and experienced users alike can learn to use the system and discover HPC best practices. The series offers hands-on tutorials taught by ICDS engineers and researchers.
Important: Because this training includes hands-on examples we recommend that all attendees have an active Roar account. Apply for an account here.
| Session Name | Topics Covered | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| New User Training | How to connect to the system; the different Roar architectures; using Linux; navigating the file system and software stack; getting help; Moving data to/from Roar; allocation usage and topography for jobs; batch job submission scripting; how to run a simple job; archival storage | ICDS account and laptop required |
| Getting Your Software Running on Roar | Users will learn the basics of working with software on the Roar supercomputing system, including: -Using the Roar Software Stack -Installing/Building from source code -Using shared and static libraries -Compilation automation with 'Make' -User level package management with Conda -Software Containerization with Singularity | ICDS account and laptop required |
| Intermediate HPC Training | Users will dive deeper into working with the Roar supercomputing system, including: -Basic optimization techniques -Code debugging -Identifying performance bottlenecks/hot-spots -Automatic compiler optimizations -Parallelization methods (multi-tasking, shared memory, distributed memory) -Scaling studies -Version control | ICDS account and laptop required; attendees should be able to submit and run jobs on the cluster and compile simple codes |
Session Videos
There are currently no scheduled live training sessions, but you can still watch our recordings of previous Roar trainings.