The CHPC is pleased to announce its online Winter School for 2021 in collaboration with PRACE and EPCC.

The 2021 Winter School will be presented in two online courses:

• PRACE Supercomputing MOOC already open; and

• CHPC Practical HPC starting 16 July 2021

The first 4 weeks of the PRACE Supercomputing MOOC provide the necessary foundational information and concepts for the Practical HPC course.

You will need to complete all of the first 4 weeks of the Supercomputing MOOC to be fully prepared for all the topics in the CHPC Practical HPC course.

This MOOC is a focussed introduction to High Performance Computing and the prerequisite for the CHPC Practical HPC online course. This course is 5 weeks long and requires around 4~6 hours per week. The first 4 weeks are needed for the CHPC Winter School that follows.

Note that you will only have access to the Supercomputing MOOC at no cost for 7 weeks.

1. Supercomputers — introduction to HPC
2. Parallel Computers — the hardware
3. Parallel Computing — programming supercomputers
4. Computer Simulations
5. Case Studies

Week 5 is optional.

This online course will introduce South African HPC users to the systems at the CHPC and help you develop practical skills in using the cluster for your scientific work. Attendees will learn the basics of using the CHPC Lengau cluster along with how to convert the computational intensive parts of their scientific workflow into a job script suitable for the CHPC. The Practical HPC course is 5 weeks long and will need about 6~8 hours per week.

• CHPC Hardware
• The CHPC Systems
• The Command Line
• How to Fix Errors
• Scaling & Performance
• Applications—from Workflow to Job Script
• Installing Your Own Software

First sign up for the SC MOOC:

• https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/supercomputing

Then sign up for the Practical HPC Winter School from 18 June:

• https://moodle.chpc.ac.za/

NOTE: It is essential to sign up to the SC MOOC using the same email address you use for the CHPC Winter School.

Access to the Supercomputng MOOC is at no charge for the first 7 weeks.

There is no charge for the CHPC Practical HPC course.

No. The free option is sufficient. Just remember that you will only have access to the SC MOOC for 7 weeks.

No, this is not necessary because:

1. You only need to learn the content of the first 4 weeks of the SC MOOC to prepare for the CHPC Winter School.
2. We run our own quizzes in the Winter School online course to test your understanding of the SC MOOC content.

The Winter School is for anyone who needs to use the CHPC systems, or an HPC system at their own institution.

All you need to know are basic Linux commands. We cover everything from there on: how to use Linux commands to write a shell program file to create the job script needed for running on an HPC cluster.

Address all queries to helpdesk@chpc.ac.za or post to our Helpdesk.