Description

On Thursday June 22nd at 10h-12h the Faculty Library Engineering and Architecture organizes a train-the-trainer infosession on the use of the HPC-UGent infrastructure and services in your course(s). This hosted by Ewald Pauwels, scientific coordinator of the UGent High Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure.Does your course or practical session involve letting students work with a computer?

• Do you ask your students to program in e.g. R, Python, or another programming language?

• Do you need the Linux bash command line interface for your hands-on session?

• Do students regularly have to run compute-heavy scientific software, using e.g. CPU or GPU resources?

• Are you teaching students how to use a specific scientific software package, with or without a graphical user interface?

• Do you rely on a dedicated server or workstation on which you let your students work?

If any of the above sounds familiar, then this infosession could interest you.

HPC-UGent provides centralised scientific computing services, training, and support for researchers and students. Scalable IT infrastructure (CPU and GPU resources) is readily available and can be used free of charge.

Recent developments have made it easy to interact with the HPC infrastructure, using a web portal. This portal provides a point-and-click interface to the HPC within a standard internet browser like Firefox, Chrome, etc. so no local helper applications are required on your laptop.

A vast array of scientific software packages is preinstalled on the system. The web portal also allows you to run the GUI of such a package, all within an internet browser. Additionally, a specialized interactive/debug cluster is available, which guarantees that your jobs start instantly (with limited resources). No more waiting in the queue!

We are convinced that the HPC-UGent setup can be used in many teaching and hands-on assignments, often replacing dedicated local infrastructure, or alleviating the burden of letting students install a host of software on their own laptop. In the Q&A session, we would love to hear on how you could use the HPC-UGent infrastructure, or what is holding you back.

Schedule:

• 10h00: Brief overview of HPC-UGent services and infrastructure

• 10h30: Demo of HPC-UGent web portal

• 11h00: Q&A – what are you teaching and how could you use HPC-UGent?

• 12h00: End

Practical details:

• Location: Multimedia room, S9, Campus Sterre

• When: Thursday June 22nd │ 10h00-12h00