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We offer introductory training sessions to the UCalgary researchers to familiarize them with the ARC High Performance Computing cluster. The online sessions (via zoom) are available every week, choose a date that suits you.

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Training Session 1: Introduction to cluster access

Tuesday 11am -12 noon

Course Level: Basic

Prerequisites: Familiarity with Linux Command line is essential for this training session.

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This session will provide an overview of the ARC cluster including the following topic:

  • How to access ARC?
  • When to move your research workflows to ARC
  • An overview of the cluster architecture
  • Basic Cluster Policy
  • How to organize your data on ARC?
  • How to send files back and forth from ARC?
  • Access the state of the cluster
  • Basic introduction to the idea of job schedulers

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Training Session 2: Introduction to Job Scheduling on HPC

Thursday 11am -12 noon

Course Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: Prior understanding of an HPC environment is mandatory for this session. This can be achieved by attending the training session 1.

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This session will provide an overview of type of jobs, job scheduling, job monitoring.

  • How to find a pre-installed software on ARC?
  • How to access software in modules?
  • How to request an interactive job?
  • How to write Slurm scripts to submit a batch job?
  • How to request compute resources for a given job?
  • Job monitoring

Complete the online booking process here.

Book as many sessions as you need.

Please reach out to us at support@hpc.ucalgary.ca for more help.