Introduction to Parallel Computing on the HPCC

Fill out the ICER Workshop Registration form by April 20, 2023, to reserve your spot. 

This non-credit, in-person workshop is provided by Michigan State University’s Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER) and is designed to introduce the basics of parallel computing to users of ICER’s High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC).  

The prerequisites needed for this course are listed below. 

• Existing MSU ICER HPCC account 
• Basic understanding of the ICER HPCC environment, Linux and SLURM 

The learning objectives for this course are listed below. 

• Understand concurrent use of HPCC hardware e.g., cluster, node, core 
• Understand concepts of parallel computing e.g., process, thread, distributed memory 
• Use Linux to generate and test parallel computations, then estimate required resources  
• Use SLURM to reserve required resources and submit a parallel job to the HPCC  
• Use Linux based tools to measure the performance and efficiency of a parallel job 

*** Attendees are required to bring a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to the workshop *** 

Questions? Contact Mahmoud Parvizi at parvizim@msu.edu