Online training materials

We provide an overview on publicly available training materials from SNIC related (e.g. SNIC centres) and external sources.

This pages is currently under construction and more contents will be added soon.

Basic use of HPC systems

Overview material about HPC systems

The HPC-Carpentry initiative has online training material for a 1-day introduction to HPC. It covers both Linux command line and SLURM.

UNIX and LINUX

Almost all current HPC system use UNIX or LINUX as their operating system. Basic UNIX/LINUX skills are essential for using such a system:

• Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has produced a clear and general set of slides about HPC Linux.

• This video about Unix from 1982 is surprisingly relevant today, and can impart an understanding of the underlying philosophy behind the *NIX operating system.

• The teaching materials on the UNIX shell of the software carpentry courses are available online. They are suitable for self study.

Job schedulers

SLURM

SLURM is currently the most widely used job scheduler by the SNIC centres. Unless you are using software, whose GUI is well integrated into the scheduler, having some knowledge about it is required when working at a SNIC installation. On the SLURM website you can access the official SLURM documentation an FAQ and (video) tutorials. In addition the SNIC centres provide their own documentation, also describing local customisation:

• NSC's Introduction to batch jobs
• LUNARC's batch system guide
• UPPMAX's Slurm user guide

Programming

Python programming

• The teaching materials on Python programming of the software [carpentry courses are available online. They are suitable for self study and provide a good introduction for novices.
• Python course given by C3SE.
• SeSE course on Python for Matlab users
• BioExcel webinars on computational biomolecular research. Topics include best practices for using the Gromacs and CPMD codes.
• CodeRefinery lessons on version control with Git, automated testing, CMake, etc.

Parallel programming

• General HPC training material from PRACE
• General HPC training material from XSEDE

MPI

For MPI related training and documents see the resource section of our MPI page

OpenMP

For OpenMP related training materials refer to the resource section of the OpenMP page.

GPU programming

Online tutorials from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Software

Quantum Espresso

• Link to the Quantum Espresso web page for tutorials and lectures from workshops.

VASP

• Link to 3-day VASP workshop at NERSC 2016, including videos of presentations and slides.

WIEN2k

• Link to material from WIEN2k workshop 2016 at McMasters University, with videos and presentation slides.

OpenFOAM

• Link to material from CFD course given in Chalmers.

CESM (Community Earth System Model)

• Link to material including practical sessions from the 2016 CESM Tutorial run by UCAR. See also Building CESM models on the NSC triolith system.

WRF ARW (Weather Research and Forecasting Model)

• Link to WRF ARW online tutorial made available by UCAR. See also Building and testing WRF on Triolith.

CASTEP

• Link to Online tutorials

CP2K

• Linkto HOWTOs

GULP

• Link to online manuals

Other topics

Data Management

The Data Management Seminar Online is a 3-hour seminar aimed at any UPPMAX or SNIC user who deals with large data volumes — many files, or large files, or both. The seminar focuses both on practical aspects and general best practices, e.g. how to use rsync to move files, where to place data, etc.

SNIC Science Cloud

The SNIC Science Cloud Workshop Material on Github takes 3-5 hours to complete, and teaches how to work with OpenStack-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).