Linux Clusters Institute Workshops

Akin, David; Belgin, Mehmet; Bouvet, Timothy; Bright, Neil; Harrell, Stephen Lien; Haymore, Brian; Jennings, Michael; Knepper, Richard; LaPine, Daniel; Liu, Fang Cherry; Maji, Amiya K.; Neeman, Henry; Reynolds, Resa; Sherman, Andrew H.; Showerman, Michael; Tillotson, Jenett; Towns, John; Turner, G. W.; Zimmerman, Brett

doi:10.1145/3155105.3155108

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“…There is a need for truly scalable and sustainable HPC training to meet the training priorities of the HPC community [2,23]. Based on our experiences in aspiring to deliver sustainable and scalable HPC training through hosted HPC resources, we have learned that the answer is not going to lie exclusively "in the cloud."…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The development of the virtual lab considered best practices in the implementation of educational technology and followed previous lessons learned to provide a robust and effective learning platform for HPC System Administrator training [1,2,8,11,19,36,38].…”

Section: A Model For Hpc Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within the global HPC community, the common approach to delivering HPC System Administrator training is through physical face-to-face engagements. The hands-on component of HPC training is facilitated through leveraging existing HPC infrastructure or cloud-based services that simulate an HPC environment [2,[7][8][9][10]40].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ecosystems Project has migrated much of its training material to digital delivery platforms 2 and has favored the use of virtual resources, in the form of local Virtual Machines (VMs) for the hands-on training component. This adaptation was made in response to the challenges experienced with the traditional approach towards HPC System Administrator training; namely relating to the use of physical HPC infrastructure or remotely provided HPC resources.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Let's Get Our Heads Out of the Clouds: A scalable and sustainable approach to HPC Training Labs for Resource Constrained Environments and anyone else stuck in the Clouds

Johnston,

Timm,

de Beste

et al. 2024

JOCSE

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In this paper, we present an approach to hands-on High Performance Computing (HPC) System Administrator training that is not reliant on high performance computing infrastructure. We introduce a scalable, standalone virtual 3-node OpenHPC-based training lab designed for Resource Constrained Environments (RCE's) that runs on a participant's local computer. We describe the technical components and implementation of the virtual HPC training lab and address the principles and best practices considered throughout the design of the training material.

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Section: A Model For Hpc Trainingmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Let's Get Our Heads Out of the Clouds: A scalable and sustainable approach to HPC Training Labs for Resource Constrained Environments and anyone else stuck in the Clouds

Johnston,

Timm,

de Beste

et al. 2024

JOCSE

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“…Currently there are two workshops that include HPC System Administration training and tutorials. The rst and oldest, Linux Clusters Institute (LCI), "provides education and advanced technical training for IT professionals who deploy and support High Performance Computing (HPC) Linux clusters" [4]. LCI provides two separate workshops, one for Linux novices and one for Linux System Administrators that are trying to learn HPC.…”

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confidence: 99%

Teaching HPC Systems Administrators

Younts¹,

Harrell²

2020

JOCSE

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The ability to grow and teach systems professionals relies on having the capacity to let students interact with supercomputers at levels not given to normal users. In this paper we describe the teaching methods and hardware platforms used by Purdue Research Computing to train undergraduates for HPC systems-facing roles. From Raspberry Pi clusters to the LittleFe project, previous work has focused on providing miniature hardware platforms and developing curriculums for teaching. Recently, we have developed and employed a method using virtual machines to reach a wider audiences, created best practices, and removed barriers for approaching coursework. This paper outlines the system we have designed, expands on the benets and drawbacks over hardware systems, and discusses the failures and successes we have had teaching HPC System Administrators.

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