Novice introduction to parallelisation with high performance computing. This material was conceived as a sandbox project for hpc-carpentry. This work derives from hpc-in-a-day but will not be kept in sync.

The material can be viewed here!

The material targets future users of a HPC infrastructure of any discipline. The learners are expected to have an introductory level of programming skills. Learners are expected to know how to submit a batch job on a HPC cluster. Further, knowledge on how to write functions in python are required. Basic numpy array commands are beneficial but not required to follow the course.

This boils down to the fact, that learners should have completed:

• swcarpentry/shell-novice
• swcarpentry/python-novice-inflammation
• hpccarpentry/hpc-intro or hpc-in-a-day's first 4 lessons

This material tries to be scheduler agnostic. Currently, it supports LSF and SLURM. The job scheduler type can be set with the workshop_scheduler variable in _config.yaml.

More information on how to teach this material can be found in the instructor notes under the Extras tab.

The material is based on the software carpentry lesson template. It hence depends on a fairly recent version of jekyll. Just give building it with make site in the root directory a try. If you find any problems, please open an issue.

To test the material locally, open a terminal and type:

$ make serve
# ...
    Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

Once you see the above, open a web browser on the same machine and copy & paste http://127.0.0.1:4000 in the URL address field. Load this page and you should see a local version of the material display. Exit the rendering as prompted by pressing ctrl-c.