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Introduction to Research Computing on ManeFrame II Cluster

Instructor

  • Instructor: Tue Vu
  • Office: 119 Ford Hall
  • Office Hours: Wednesdays, 8:30 am to 11:30 am
  • Email: tuev@smu.edu

Workshop Description

This workshop introduces participants to the ManeFrame II computer cluster–SMU’s high-performance computing resource–its structure and basic usage and how to submit computational tasks to the cluster.

Prerequisites

This workshop requires an account on MII

Course Outline

Topic

Description

Setup Preparing for the course
1. Introduction What is M3?
2. Accessing the M3 Cluster How can I access the M3 cluster from my local machine?
3. The structure of the M3 Cluster What is the structure of the M3 Cluster?
4. Storage on M3 How and where can I store my files?
5. Transferring files to and from M3 How can I transfer data between M3 and my local machine?
6. Running an interactive job on M3 How do I request and interact with a compute node?
Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.