Basics of Scientific Computation for new IMPRS CoNI Doctoral Researchers

The training will consist of two parts:

1. An introduction to Linux Bash:
Navigating the file system and executing file operations
File manipulation using an editor
Solving routine tasks by formulating commands and combining existing programs

2. An introduction to using an HPC Cluster with the Workload Manager Slurm:
Architecture of the GWDG Scientific Compute Platform
Working on different file systems (home, scratch, tmp, local)
Using the software module system/Spack
Using the scheduler/Slurm in interactive and batch mode
Obtaining specific resources with Slurm partitions

We will be working on the Scientific Compute Cluster (SCC) of the GWDG. For this, we will start by establishing a connection to the cluster via SSH using SSH keys.

In short:

The Linux basics course will introduce the bash and command line interface, and show how to navigate folders and files.
Additionally, we will introduce more bash commands and shell scripting.
The second part will introduce the HPC scheduling system Slurm and demonstrate how to submit jobs individually, using a batch script, and how to run jobs interactively.