This webinar covers the basics of accessing SDSC’s Expanse supercomputer, including: managing the user environment using Lmod, a Lua-based module system; compiling and running CPU and GPU jobs using Slurm; how to run batch jobs and where to run jobs on the Expanse file system. We will also provide a brief overview of interactive computing, and using applications such as Jupyter Notebooks and how to run them via the command line or from the Expanse portal. It is assumed that you have mastered the basic skills of logging onto HPC systems using SSH and running basic Unix commands on these systems.

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Speakers: Mary Thomas, Ph.D.

Mary Thomas works in the Data-Enabled Scientific Computing Division, where she is leading education, outreach & training on HPC systems. In the past, Mary has led several portal and Web services projects for high-performance computing infrastructure. Mary holds a Ph.D. in computational science, and her primary research has been focused on HPC computing, coastal ocean modeling, cyberinfrastructure, web technologies, and Amazon Web Services. Mary is also a research faculty member in the Computational Sciences Research Center at San Diego State University. For fun, Mary has sponsored several teams at the annual student cluster competitions at the SC Conference (The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis).