Introduction to UPPMAX — first day lessons

Here you will find some of the documentation for the UPPMAX resources in an easy to find place.

You can also find more information at: https://www.uppmax.uu.se/

Intro

• Welcome on-site!
  • Lesson material
  • Questions
  • Type along
  • Exercises
  • Example of arrangement on your screen
  • Lesson Modules
  • Icebreaker in HackMD
• Welcome on-line!
  • Lesson material
  • Questions
  • Exercises
  • Type along
  • Example of arrangement for your screen(s)!
  • Lesson Modules
  • Icebreaker in HackMD

Overview

• Overview
  • NAISS
  • UPPMAX missions
  • UPPMAX systems
  • High Performance Computing — HPC
  • Overview of the UPPMAX systems

Get started

• Login
  • The login
  • General understanding
  • Terminals
  • Terminal with X11 server and light graphics
  • Graphical file manager
  • Linux on your computer
  • Visual Studio Code (not covered in course)
  • ThinLinc (all platforms!)
• Linux
  • What is Linux?
  • Using the command line
  • Editing files with file/text editors
  • The graphical editors
  • Typical sources of error
  • Caution!!
• Basic toolkit
  • We will cover these commands
  • File system Navigation
  • Copy, Create, Move
  • Archiving
  • Deleting
  • Help
  • Let’s get wild with Wildcards
  • Reading files
  • File permissions
  • Changing permissions

More about UPPMAX

• Overview
  • Organisational orienteering
  • UPPMAX missions
  • UPPMAX systems
  • UPPMAX support staff
  • The Application experts not dealing with allocation and accounts
• High Performance Computing — HPC
  • HPC, HTC and MTC
  • What is a cluster?
  • Storage basics
  • The UPPMAX hardware
  • Summary about the three “common” UPPMAX clusters
  • Overview of the UPPMAX systems
• NAISS
  • NAISS HPC Clusters
  • Swedish Science Cloud (SSC)
  • STORAGE
  • The projects
  • NAISS training

Using UPPMAX

• Software and tools
  • Modules
  • Installed software
  • Installed databases
  • Install software yourself
  • Run own scripts or programs
• Submitting jobs
  • Slurm, sbatch, the job queue
  • Jobs
  • Slurm parameters
  • Interactive jobs
  • Other Slurm tools
• Working on UPPMAX
  • $HOME dir and project dir
  • What kind of work will you perform?
  • Common problems
• Courses and workshops
  • Introductory Linux courses
  • Other UPPMAX courses
  • Courses at other NAISS/SNIC Centers
  • Links to extra material

NAISS SENS

• NAISS SENS and Bianca
  • Sensitive personal data
  • Apply for project
  • Bianca
  • Bianca’s design
  • ThinLinc