Practical: High-Performance Computing System Administration

Event content

This practical course focuses on aspects of system administration in the area of high-performance computing. The course takes the format of a one-week block-course with many presentations from various colleagues around the main topic. Furthermore, university students of this course will contribute to the presentations as they have worked on their own projects related to HPC system administration. The presentations will include hands-on exercises that are to be completed during the presentations. For those that have no access to the HPC system yet, trainings accounts will be given out on request.

Learning goal

• Discuss theoretic facts related to networking, compute and storage resources
• Integrate cluster hardware consisting of multiple compute and storage nodes into a “supercomputer“
• Configure system services that allow the efficient management of the cluster hardware and software including network services such as DHCP, DNS, NFS, IPMI, SSHD
• Install software and provide it to multiple users
• Compile end-user applications and execute it on multiple nodes
• Analyze system and application performance using benchmarks and tools
• Formulate security policies and good practice for administrators
• Apply tools for hardening the system such as firewalls and intrusion detection
• Describe and document the system configuration

Information about the event

Max. participants

20

Requirements

Basic experience with Linux and the shell

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Julian Kunkel