Welcome to HPC Workshop 5 - Loading and Installing Software with Spack — an essential part of your journey toward mastering High Performance Computing (HPC) with HSUper!

This training is part of the reimagined HSUper Workshops series, originally offered as a six-part on-site program and now presented as flexible, self-paced digital trainings.

Learning Goals

• Spack and Modules: You will learn about the difference between spack and module environments.

• Software Installation: You will learn about the Installation of software packages not available as a module at HSUper via.

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 access to HSUper and access to the campus network (VPN possible), to actually work through it.

• Access to HSUper

You should already have acquired the skills from the previous 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
• HPC Workshop 4 - Advanced Slurm