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On Monday September 10th 2007 and Tuesday September 11th 2007 the UAB HPC community held it's [http://me.eng.uab.edu/wiki/index.php?title=HPC_Bootcamp%2C_Sep_2007 second annual HPC BootCamp].  Day 1 of the event included an overview of the HPC resources on campus, refresher courses on Linux command usage and job management, and an introduction to grid job scheduling service of the UABgrid collaboration environment.  Day 2 was a special session dedicated to understanding the architecture and services of UABgrid collaboration environment.


== General Section ==
The 2007 HPC BootCamp was well attended by the HPC user community, support personal, and regional resource providers. Thanks to all those who participated.


The grid part of the bootcamp is estimated at 45 minutes broken in roughly 3 sections.
= BootCamp Presentations =


* Describing UABgrid
The presentations for the UABgrid collaboration environment components are available at the following links.
** Why use grid technology and/or why is it's needed
** An overview of the UABgrid Architecture: a basic description of the grid head node, storage node, and compute nodes.


* Using UABgrid
[http://lab.ac.uab.edu/~jpr/doc/presentations/uabgrid-bc-2007/uabgrid-bc-day1-final-u1.pdf UAB HPC BootCamp Day 1: UABgrid Introduction]
** Authentication
*** Get you UABgrid Credentials
*** SSH to head node


* Basic Commands
[http://lab.ac.uab.edu/~jpr/doc/presentations/uabgrid-bc-2007/uabgrid-bc-day2-final-u1.pdf UAB HPC BootCamp Day 2: UABgrid In-Depth]
** gwhost, gwps, gwkill, gwhistory, grid-proxy-init, grid-proxy-info, gwlog (ghost, gps, gkill, ghistory, ginit, ginfo, glog?)


* Example jobs
= Day 1: HPC BootCamp Schedule =
** Basic job submit
** Job Arrays
** Job Batches


* Highlight Advanced Tools and Future Plans
The schedule for day 1 is available at the [http://me.eng.uab.edu/wiki/index.php?title=HPC_Bootcamp%2C_Sep_2007#Schedule Mechanical Engineering website].


== Advanced Section ==
= Day 2: UABgrid BootCamp =


This section is on the morning and early afternoon of the 2nd Day of the Fall 2007 HPC BootCamp, Tuesday, September 11, 2007.   
== Location ==
 
This section was on the morning and early afternoon of the 2nd Day of the Fall 2007 HPC BootCamp, Tuesday, September 11, 2007.   


'''UPDATE:''' Day 2 will be held in the '''Penthouse''' of the '''Administration Building''' (13th floor), 701 20th Streed, Birmingham, AL, from 9:00am to 2:30pm.
'''UPDATE:''' Day 2 will be held in the '''Penthouse''' of the '''Administration Building''' (13th floor), 701 20th Streed, Birmingham, AL, from 9:00am to 2:30pm.


The section should focus on early adopters and system administrators.
The section focused on early adopters and system administrators.


=== Proposed Schedule ===
== Schedule ==


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= Documentation =
* [[UsingGridWay]]
* [[UABgridAuthentication Understanding UABgrid Authentication]]
= Miscellaneous =
* [[UABgridBootCampPlanningNotes]]

Latest revision as of 13:54, 18 September 2007

On Monday September 10th 2007 and Tuesday September 11th 2007 the UAB HPC community held it's second annual HPC BootCamp. Day 1 of the event included an overview of the HPC resources on campus, refresher courses on Linux command usage and job management, and an introduction to grid job scheduling service of the UABgrid collaboration environment. Day 2 was a special session dedicated to understanding the architecture and services of UABgrid collaboration environment.

The 2007 HPC BootCamp was well attended by the HPC user community, support personal, and regional resource providers. Thanks to all those who participated.

BootCamp Presentations

The presentations for the UABgrid collaboration environment components are available at the following links.

UAB HPC BootCamp Day 1: UABgrid Introduction

UAB HPC BootCamp Day 2: UABgrid In-Depth

Day 1: HPC BootCamp Schedule

The schedule for day 1 is available at the Mechanical Engineering website.

Day 2: UABgrid BootCamp

Location

This section was on the morning and early afternoon of the 2nd Day of the Fall 2007 HPC BootCamp, Tuesday, September 11, 2007.

UPDATE: Day 2 will be held in the Penthouse of the Administration Building (13th floor), 701 20th Streed, Birmingham, AL, from 9:00am to 2:30pm.

The section focused on early adopters and system administrators.

Schedule

Time Topic
9:00 - 9:20 Coffee, refreshments, mingle
9:20 - 9:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:00 UABgrid Architecture: Infrastructure and Resources

grid interfaces, compute resources, 10GigE research network, collaboration tools

10:00 - 11:00 Adding resources to UABgrid

How to set up Globus, certificates, firewall, job env, account provisioning (account & grid mapfile)

11:00 - 12:00 Running Jobs on UABgrid

Using the meta-scheduler, staging data, incorporating local resources (similar to Day 1 user overview)

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - selected box lunches will be provided to enable informal discussion in Penthouse
1:00 - 1:45 Collaboration Infrastructure

Virtual Organizations and Tools (groups mgmt, wikis, blogs, content mgmt, project tracking, file sharing)

1:45 - 2:00 Roadmap and Goals
2:00 - 2:30 Wrap-up