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tavareshugo commented 3 years ago

Use this issue to time our sessions on the first iteration of the course (Jul 2021).

Schedule for a 1-day course:

9:30-9:45 Welcome 9:45-11:00 11:00-11:15 Break 11:15-12:30 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:45 14:45-15:00 Break 15:00-17:00

Estimated time for each session: 20m Introduction to HPC (slides) 1h Working on a HPC cluster 1h Using SLURM 1h Managing Software 1h Parallelising Jobs with Arrays 40m Cambridge HPC Resources

tavareshugo commented 3 years ago

First iteration of the course ran on 6th July 2021. I've made a note of some of the timings during the session:

9:35 Welcome etc.
9:50 - 11:00 Intro, including mentimeter quiz
11:00 - 11:15 break
11:15-12:30 "Working on HPC"
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:20 SLURM
15:30 - 16:00 Conda (shortened session)
16:10 - 16:40 Arrays (very briefly covered)
16:45 - 17:30 Cambridge HPC resources

Some of these took a little longer due to not being as familiar with material and training environment. Revised times:

20m Welcome 1h Introduction to HPC (slides + mentimeter quiz) 1h15m Working on a HPC cluster 1h40m Using SLURM 40m Managing Software 30m Parallelising Jobs with Arrays (demo) 45m Cambridge HPC Resources

Quick trainer checkout at the end of the course:

The content and pace of the course seemed adequate for an introduction course (although the audience seemed to be a 50/50 mix of people that had and had not used the HPC before)
Arrays (and possibly other topics such as job dependencies) can be delivered more as "taster" sessions. We can still have detailed materials in the course page, but in the actual workshop present them as a demo. These could possibly be available as new "specialised" sessions in the future.
Mentimeter quiz was really nice from the trainers' perspective - more of it is welcome!

tavareshugo commented 3 years ago

Planned schedule for the second iteration of the course (21 Sep 2021):

(20m) 9:35-10:00 Welcome (1h) 10:00-11:00 Introduction to HPC (slides + mentimeter quiz) - Lajos + Hugo (15m) 11:00-11:15 Break (1h15m) 11:15-12:30 Working on a HPC cluster (VS Code, SSH, Filezilla/scp/rsync) (1h) 12:30-13:30 Lunch (1h45m) 13:30-15:15 Using SLURM (15m) 15:15-15:30 Break (30m) 15:30-16:00 Managing Software with modules and Conda (abridged version or demo) (30m) 16:00-16:30 Job dependencies (NEW) - Lajos (30m) 16:30-17:00 Parallelising Jobs with Arrays (abridged version or demo) (30m) 17:00-17:30 Cambridge HPC resources - Lajos

tavareshugo commented 2 years ago

In Feb 2022 we ran this as two half-days (9:30 - 13:00). These times are quite accurate, I took them from the recorded sessions.

Day 1

9:35 - 9:50 Welcome
9:50 - 10:25 Intro presentation (Lajos)
10:25 - 10:45 Intro Quiz (Hugo)
10:45 - 10:55 Break
10:55 - 12:05 Working on HPC (Chloe); the rough times are split as:
- Up to exercise 1 (15m)
- Up to exercise 2 (25m)
- Up to exercise 3 (30m)
12:05 - 12:15 Break
12:15 - 12:45 start of SLURM (up to exercise 1, but the exercise was sent as optional homework)
12:45 - 13:00 we stayed around for some free-form Q&A

Day 2

9:35 - 10:30 Finished SLURM (started with solution to exercise and then variables + exercise and interactive login)
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:15 Job dependencies
11:15 - 11:20 Break
11:25 - 12:00 Conda
12:00 - 12:30 Arrays
12:30 - 13:00 Cambridge HPC

tavareshugo commented 2 years ago

The schedule for the course in April 2022 worked very well (just ran over 5 minutes on the last talk), so use that as a template for future workshops: https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/zfkgukjyxz/home

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