farm HPC hands-on: Friday 2pm, Jan 27th, 2023.

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A hands-on introduction to the farm HPC at UC Davis

Have you ever felt like you needed more disk space? Or memory? Or CPUs? Or access to GPUs? Is your laptop just not cutting it any more? Or you just want to, like, give your laptop a vacation? Boy are you in luck!

UC Davis has several compute clusters, aka "high performance computers", that let you log into remote computers and use them for bigger compute. But they are not SUPER easy to use… and there are lots of details!

In this session, we'll cover some or all of:

• logging into farm with ssh from Mac, Windows, and Linux computers.
• the basics of working on a multiuser system: disk space, processes, other users, and permissions.
• using slurm to request computing resources (memory and CPU)
• the basics of using the module system and also conda to install your own software
• how to run R and Python scripts on remote systems in "headless" mode
• various and sundry other topics that titus is blanking on at the moment but trust me they will be fascinating

This will be a precursor to another hands-on session - using and abusing RStudio Server on the cluster.

Join me on Friday (Jan 27th) at 2pm! I'll plan on an hour.

Remote attendees welcome! And I'll record stuff.

Important! You will want a farm account! SIGN UP NOW PLEASE.

If you already have a farm account, you should be ready to go!

If you need one, you can get one! Please follow the instructions here but instead of indicating 'Brown' as supervisor, please use 'Datalab (Brown, Titus)'.

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Watch this space for location and zoom connection info! You can subscribe to this issue to get updates about just this workshop. Or you can e-mail me at ctbrown@ucdavis.edu :).

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Update: will be in Shields 360!

Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/94386471714?pwd=VGJjNjNWNG5ydVVQSE55UXljM3JzQT09

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Notes here!

https://hackmd.io/baOa1HADTYCq4AFRCLnAQw?view

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video: https://video.ucdavis.edu/media/t/1_hkmp1h9t