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SUMMARY:AI Training Series - Orientation Session
DTSTART:20261006T080000Z
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DESCRIPTION:By joining this session\, participants will learn about the la
 ndscape of LRZ systems and services relevant to data analytics & AI users.
  Further\, they will be provided with the initial training of the most es
 sentialskills needed to work with these systems (i.e. fundamentals of GNU/
 Linux\, SSH). Participation in this Orientation Session should be consider
 ed a mandatory requirement for anyone interested in other sessions of the 
 series.\nIt has been about 350 years that separate the original 1673 Leibn
 iz mechanical calculator from today's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre's (LRZ
 ) facilities located on the Campus Garching. And yet\, the spirit has not 
 changed. To paraphrase the German mathematician: "It is beneath the dignit
 y of excellent people to waste their time in calculation when the work co
 uld just as accurately be done with the aid of a machine."\nParticipants j
 oining this course will be provided with a comprehensive walkthrough and u
 sage guides to contemporary types of such computing machines which can be 
 found at LRZ. In a general overview\, historical and current developments 
 and trends in the field of scientific computing and cluster systems will 
 be presented. This will\, amongst others\, address the following questions
 : How are modern cluster systems designed and how do they work? How did we
  come to High Performance Computing\, High Performance Data Analytics and 
 High Performance AI? What makes a system adequate to a specific workload? 
 How are these systems operated and how are they made available to their u
 sers?\nIn addition\, an introduction to GNU/Linux and the Unix Shell as we
 ll as the use of remote systems viaSecure Shell (SSH) will be provided. GN
 U/Linux is a family of open source operating systems\, powering all differ
 ent kinds of computing hardware (from mobile devices to high performance c
 omputing clusters... and pretty much everything in-between). The typical c
 ommand line interface is a Unix-like shell. It serves as interactive comma
 nd environment and scripting language\, allowing users to control the syst
 em\, and to automate tasks of varying complexity. SSH is a cryptographic n
 etwork protocol\,which is typically used to login and execute commands on 
 remote (GNU/Linux) systems.\nThe introduction to GNU/Linux opens with a sh
 ort historical overview and some common concepts & terminology will be exp
 lained. Then the focus is directed toward working with the Unix Shell. Fir
 st\, it will be used to navigate the file system and directories of a syst
 em\, then the mechanisms of file manipulation and ownership will be explor
 ed. Additional commands and concepts will be explained\, and characteristi
 cs as well as methods of manipulating the shell environment will be discus
 sed.\nParticipants will be guided to install and configure a SSH client on
  their personal systems. Different applications for remote access and file
  transfer will be introduced. A conceptual and practical introduction to S
 SH keys will be given\, followed by a discussion of more advanced features
  like SSH tunneling and custom configuration options.\nThese skills will t
 hen be combined to further explore typical interaction methods and usage p
 atterns of multiuser cluster systems\, including various possibilities of 
 setting up user environments (e.g.environment variables and modules\, user
  space package managers\, containers) as well as tools for resource alloca
 tion (i.e. Slurm Workload Manager) and efficient parallelization (MPI\, Op
 enMP\, ...). Finally\, an overview of different compute clusters as well a
 s their storage systems operated by LRZ will be provided. The requirements
  for gaining access to these systems will be covered as well.\nParticipant
 s will obtain a good understanding of the characteristics of multiuser clu
 ster systems in general and will practise basic methods of typical interac
 tion. They will acquire essential knowledge and skills necessary to succes
 sfully interact with the command line interface of a GNU/Linux system. The
 y will learn to use SSH in order to connect to and interact with different
  remote systems. They will familiarize themselves with the landscape of cl
 uster systems available at LRZ and this will allow them to choose the righ
 t system for their own compute projects.\nThe material will be presented a
 s a combination of lectures\, demos and hands-on sessions\, with a focus o
 n the latter. There will be breaks during the session.\nPreliminary Agenda
 \n\n\nDay 1:\n\nHistory of computing\nBuilding intelligent machines\nPanor
 ama of systems at LRZ\nThe SLURM scheduler\n\nDay 2:\n\nBasics of Linux\nI
 ntro to SSH\nSSH tunnels\n\n\n\nPrerequisites\n\nSome training material wi
 ll be provided prior to the actual course dates and participants are encou
 raged to study this by themselves in preparation of the event.\n\n \nCont
 ent Level\nThe content level of the course is broken down as:\n\n\n\n\n\nB
 eginner's content:\n\n\n75%\n\n\n\n\nIntermediate content:\n\n\n25%\n\n\n\
 n\nAdvanced content:\n\n\n0%\n\n\n\n\nCommunity-targeted content:\n\n\n0%\
 n\n\n\n\n\nLanguage\nEnglish\nLecturers\nDr. Jophin John\, Florian Kaspar\
 , Dr. Naweiluo Zhou (all LRZ)\nPrices and Eligibility\nThe course is open 
 and free of charge for people from academia and industry affiliated with a
 n institution in the Member States of the European Union or Associated/Oth
 er Countries to the Horizon 2020 programme.\nRegistration\nPlease register
  with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation.\nWithdrawal 
 Policy\nSee Withdrawal\n\nhttps://events.hpc-portal.eu/event/589/
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