HPC 101 Webinar

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Login to USGS supercomputer Yeti from Windows or Mac machine

• Define Yeti’s hardware, filesystems, and architecture

• Version control code using basic Git commands

• Navigate and manipulate filesystems on Yeti using basic Linux commands

• Efficiently edit scripts using vi text editor

• Define common workload manager SLURM flags

• Load existing software and modules on Yeti

• Submit jobs and request resources using SLURM scripts

• Monitor queue and job status

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Motivation: Why use Yeti?
• What is a supercomputer?
• Yeti architecture (hardware and storage)
• Login to Yeti from Windows (with PuTTY) or Mac with SSH
• SLURM commands (flags in slurm script, squeue, etc)
• Yeti partitions
• Git
• Linux/Command Line
• Vi commands for file editing on Yeti
• file transfer to/from Yeti with scp command
• load modules on Yeti
• batch jobs (exercise submitting jobs)
• interactive jobs with salloc (exercise running jobs)
• SSH keys and sinteractive (MatLab example)

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