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Why invest the time and effort to learn HPC?

Learning how to use HPC will likely not be valuable for all users in all cases, but it can be exceptionally valuable and save significant time and effort in certain situations. Learning these skills provide HPC knowledgable users with a strategic advantage that can serve them throughout their academic, research, and professional careers.

Anyone with a workstation crashing due to memory problems from too much data, running time consuming computational tasks, performing repetitive computations, wanting to scale their computational work, or just needing more compute power should consider using HPC resources for improved speed, efficiency and time-savings.

Common HPC Skills

Becoming an expert in HPC requires knowledge in Linux Command Line, and mastering a number of tools. The tools that provide the greatest value to you may be different from those in other scientific domains. While it may seem initially daunting, UW ARCC helps all researchers regardless of HPC experience level. Our department has developed a number of tutorials and we offer bi-weekly office hours allowing you to learn HPC at your own pace. Below is a very general list of common set of skill to master to become an expert HPC user:

  1. General HPC Use and Knowledge

  2. The Linux Operating System

  3. Command Line Interface (CLI)

  4. Data Transfers and Management

  5. Common Software for HPC Clusters (Conda, Python, R, etc)

Scheduled Trainings

UW ARCC will host a HPC Bootcamp titled Research Computing & HPC Essentials - (Getting started with ARCC's services). The bootcamp runs for a full week and due to demand is scheduled to be held twice during late Summer/Early Fall 2024:

  • August Bootcamp (Monday August 12, 2024 through Friday August 16, 2024)

  • September Bootcamp (Monday September 9, 2024 through Friday September 13, 2024)

This bootcamp can help train new or intermediate users on HPC, and will cover the topics in modules listed in the table below:

Day of the Week

Topics/Modules

Monday

  • Intro to Linux and Command Line

  • Text Editors in Linux

Tuesday

  • Intro to HPC

Wednesday

  • Using OnDemand (Access to ARCC HPCs in a web browser)

  • Data Management and Transfers

Thursday

  • Using Conda on HPC

  • Using Python on HPC

  • Using R/R-Studio on HPC

Friday

  • Jupyter Notebooks on HPC

  • Intro to External HPC Resources

Interested parties may sign up for either bootcamp here. Those who sign up are not required to attend all scheduled modules

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