Introduction to ARCHER2 for Software Developers

Description:

The lesson aims to answer the following questions:

• What hardware is available on ARCHER2?
  • What does they consist of (login nodes, compute nodes, file systems, backup)?
  • How does this impact me as a user?
• How can I access ARCHER2 interactively and transfer data?
• What does the ARCHER2 application development environment look like and how do I use it?
• How do I write job submission scripts and submit them to the ARCHER2 scheduler?
• How can I be a good ARCHER2 citizen?
• How can I check what resources I am using and look at historical usage?

Target Audience:

This lesson provides an introduction to using ARCHER2 for user who:

• have already used other HPC systems; and
• want to compile (and possibly) develop HPC software on ARCHER2.

Prerequisites:

You should have used remote HPC facilities before. In particular, you should be happy with connecting using SSH, know what a batch scheduling system is and be familiar with using the Linux command line. You should also be happy editing plain text files in a remote terminal (or, alternatively, editing them on your local system and copying them to the remote HPC system using scp). Finally, you should be comfortable with compiling parallel HPC source code that uses MPI and OpenMP.

Requirements:

Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed here). They are also required to abide by the ARCHER2 Training Code of Conduct.

Timetable:

Details to follow