Welcome to 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 the “worst case”!
  • Lesson Modules
  • Icebreaker in HackMD

Overview

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

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
• NAISS
  • NAISS HPC Clusters
  • SNIC Science Cloud (SSC)
  • STORAGE
  • The projects
  • NAISS training

Using UPPMAX

• Working on UPPMAX
  • $HOME dir and project dir
  • What kind of work will you perform?
  • Common problems
• 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
• Courses and workshops
  • Introductory Linux courses
  • Other UPPMAX courses
  • Courses at other SNIC Centers
  • Links to extra material

NAISS SENSE

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