Working with High Performance Computing (HPC)

Introduction to HPC

Trainers: Henrik Nortamo

Overview: This session provides an introduction to what is a supercomputer, terminology and architecture, how to connect and how to submit jobs to HPC.

Materials: Introduction to HPC – slides

Containers, building blocks and workflows

Overview: This session provides an introduction to HPC Containers (concept, creating, and running Singularity containers), building blocks (concept and how to use them) and workflow managers (Snakemake, Nextflow and PyCOMPSs).

Trainers: Javier Conejero and Henrik Nortamo

Materials:

• Containers – slides
• Building blocks – slides
• Workflows – slides
• Containers, building blocks and workflows – Hands-on tutorial: note that in order to carry out this tutorial, you will need to have access to an HPC cluster