Petaflop System Administration; Marenostrum III @ BSC
Date: 31 January - 1 February 2017
The registration to this course is now open. Please, bring your own laptop. All the PATC courses at BSC are free of charge.
Course Convener: Javier Bartolome
Objectives: Explain the different components that MareNostrum III is composed, which were the design decisions taken and why.
Explain how the system administration is taken in this Petaflop system.
Learning Outcomes: The students will learn how MareNostrum III is organized and how it works. This can have some insights and ideas about how to manage clusters of thousands of nodes in a HPC or no-HPC environment.
Level: INTERMEDIATE, for trainees with some theoretical and practical knowledge; those who finished the beginners course.
Prerequisites: Experience on Linux system administration is required.
Agenda:
Day 1/
Introduction & outline of the course (9h- 9:20h)
MareNostrumIII Overview (9:20h-9:40h)
Storage in MareNostrumIII (9:40h-10:40h)
PRACE Project and Services (11h-11:45h)
Networks on MareNostrumIII (11:45h-12:15h)
Clustering Software I (12:15h -13h)
Clustering Software II (14:00h -14:45h)
Practice on clustering software (14:45h-16h)
Monitoring MareNostrumIII (16:15h-17:00h)
Visit to MareNostrumIII (17h-18h)
DAY 2/
MareNostrumIII Facility (09h-09:40h)
MareNostrumIII Schedule system (9:40h-10:45h)
MareNostrumIII software stack (11h-12h)
Questions/Wrap-up (12h-12:30h)
End of Course
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