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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The schedule for the Spring 2024 HPC Training is available at
<a href="http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php">http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Our first HPC training will be held on Wednesday, March 20 at
<span style="color:red">9:00 AM</span>. All training sessions are Zoom online events from 9:00AM to 11:00AM. The sessions will be recorded for later review.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Note that all HPC trainings will start at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">March 20,2024: Magic Tools to Install & Manage Software Part 2: Singularity Container<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Installing and managing software packages often poses a challenge to HPC users on Linux systems without root permission. This two-part mini-series is aiming at introducing
helpful tools to remedy that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Part 2</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> will feature container technology and the software Singularity (a.k.a. Apptainer),
a popular implementation of containers on HPC. Containers are gaining increasing popularities for its flexibility and portability. More and more developers now start to release their software packages as working containers for users' convenience. In this training,
we will discuss how to use Singularity to run container images on our clusters, acquire more container images, and build your own container images. We will also showcase the usage of containerized popular packages such as Tensorflow and PyTorch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prerequisites:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Basic understanding of the Linux OS and shell commands is assumed
but not required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Next HPC Training:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">March 27,2024: Introduction to GNU Parallel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In scientific computation disciplines, such as bioinformatics and computational biology, many computational tools are serial in nature. To effectively run many serial jobs
simultaneously on multi-core HPC platform can be challenging. GNU Parallel is an easy to use and also powerful tool for executing commands/tasks in parallel on one or multiple host machines. This training will introduce GNU Parallel and its basic features.
Hand-on, real-world examples will be demonstrated on how to run different types of massive individual tasks using GNU Parallel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prerequisites:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Basic knowledge of HPC environment and Linux is preferred but not
required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please visit
<a href="http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php">http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php</a> for more details and register using the link provided. Users will be provided with a zoom link in their registration confirmation email. Please see the
system requirements at <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux">https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362024-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please distribute to faculty, staff and students that might be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Feng Chen, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">Manager of User Services</span><br>
<span style="background:white">High Performance Computing</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Louisiana State University</span><br>
<span style="background:white">329 Frey Computing Services Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803</span><br>
<span style="background:white">office 225-578-2924 </span><br>
</span><a href="mailto:fchen14@lsu.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#451D7C;background:white">fchen14@lsu.edu</span></a>
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