This page collects all the lecture notes, video links and worksheets from the CHPC's Winter School in one place for use by anyone who wants to self-study or teach.

The Practical HPC course is intended to teach practical skills for using the CHPC supercomputer cluster effectively and efficiently. It cover two main topics:

1. Workflow to Job Script
2. Scaling

over two weeks. These topics are approximately 6 sections, with a core of 4 sections and 2 optional sections.

First we cover the basics of the user's view of the cluster and how to write, submit and monitor a job script.

Scaling is the performance of a parallel program across different number of nodes and cores. First we cover the basics of compiling a program for the cluster, then we look at performance measurement and scaling.

We are often asked about porting or writing programs to parallel hardware. This is a large and more advanced topic and so we can point you to some resources that can help you start.

Victor Eijkhout of TACC has written a series of superlative textbooks which are all available for free at The Art of HPC.