Enrollment Closed. Class limit reached. Please contact Bob Garza, garza@tacc.utexas.edu, if you wish to get on a waiting list for this class.
The TACC Sun Constellation Cluster, Ranger, is a computational resource available to the National Science Foundation research community, providing users access to a compute cluster with a theoretical peak performance of 579 Teraflops. Spur, TACC’s Sun Visualization Cluster, contains 128 compute cores, 1 TB aggregate memory and 32 GPUs. Spur shares the InfiniBand interconnect and Lustre Parallel file system of Ranger. A description of Ranger and Spur can be found at the following URLs.
http://services.tacc.utexas.edu/index.php/ranger-user-guide
http://services.tacc.utexas.edu/index.php/spur-user-guide
In this class, attendees will
- Access and share large data sets using Scientific Gateways
- Data movement and storage
- Review several case studies highlighting data analysis in HPC research
- Introduction to remote visualization on Ranger
Attendees are expected to be familiar with the basics of submitting and running jobs on Ranger and are encouraged to bring their own code and data sets.
This training class will be held at Arizona State University, Decision Theater, DCDC Conference Room 175, Tempe, AZ.
| Day 1: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | |
| Time | Day 1 (Thursday, April 9, 2009) |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Welcome and Overview |
| 9:00 - 11:00 | Science Gateways |
| 11:00 - Noon | Scientific Workflows and Provenance |
| Noon - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Data Movement and Storage |
| 3:00 - 3:45 | Case Study: Sequencing |
| 3:45 - 4:30 | Case Study: Arecibo Pulsar Processing |
| Day 2: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Time | Day 2 (Friday, April 10, 2009) |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | Computational Steering |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Case Study: Cayuga Stream Processing |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Relational Databases for Large Data |
| 11:15 - Noon | Map-Reduce with Hadoop |
| Noon - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 5:00 | Visualization |
Class attendees traveling to the training are responsible for arranging and paying for their own travel, daily expenses, and hotel accommodations.
For travel directions to the Decision Theater and nearby accommodations please visit:
For course registration and additional details, please visit the following URL:
http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/services/training/ .
Please submit any questions you may have via the TACC Consulting System:
http://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/consulting .