Welcome to HPC Workshop 6 - Running Graphical Applications with X-Forwarding — 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

• Run an application with a graphical user interface (GUI) on HSUper: You will be able to launch applications that require a GUI from the terminal, when connected to HSUper.

• Use GUIs running on HSUper from your local workstation: You will be able to control applications with GUI support running on HSUper on your workstation, allowing you to use supported features like mouse support and interactive menus.

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

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
• HPC Workshop 4 - Advanced Slurm
• HPC Workshop 5 - Loading and Installing Software with Spack