Welcome to HPC Workshop 4 - Advanced Slurm — an essential part of your journey toward mastering High Performance Computing (HPC) with HSUper!

This course is part of the reimagined HSUper Workshops series, originally offered as a six-part on-site program. Now presented as flexible, self-paced digital trainings, these workshops are designed to empower HSUper users to independently develop the competencies needed to make the most of HPC resources.

Learning Goals

• Job Priorities and Updates: You will learn about what various Slurm messages on HSUper mean, how they might be hindering your job from running, and how to update your job to work around the limitations set by HSUper.

You will also learn about job priorities, how to check the priorities of your job, and tips on getting your jobs running faster.

• Job Dependencies: You will learn about Slurm’s dependency system and some common uses, and some advanced tips.

Level of Difficulty

This workshop is tailored for HSUper users at the Advanced-Level who are already familiar with the basics HPC, can navigate around HSUper and are already working on projects using methods, software and hardware related to HPC.

Requirements

While this course is free to use for everyone, you will need Acess to HSUper and a VPN Connection or Access to the Campus-Network of HSU, to actually work through it.

• Access to HSUper

It might also be useful to have a look at the content from the first and second HPC Workshops.

• HPC Workshop 1 - A short introduction to HSUper and the Linux Terminal
• HPC Workshop 2 - Data Transfer and System Resources
• HPC Workshop 3 - Module Systems and Slurm Jobs