We are a global volunteer organization committed to developing high-quality training materials and a modular curriculum to educate users of high-performance computing machinery. For more information, please visit HPC-Carpentry.org. HPC Carpentry is an official member of The Carpentries.
If you would like to help, please join #hpc-carpentry on the Carpentries' Slack and keep an eye out for our next meeting: we host two per month, so you won't have to wait long.
A typical HPC Carpentry workshop is stitched together from the following resources:
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"Black Box" Amdahl's Law Simulator
A parallel Python program with tunable proportions of serial and parallel work, used in our core lessons to mimic a "real" parallel workload using
sleep()instead of an energy-intensive task. -
The Unix Shell
Cluster resources are often, if not always, accessed from a command-line interface (CLI) rather than a graphical user interface (GUI). Software Carpentry's introduction to the shell (a.k.a. "terminal," a.k.a. "command line") is a prerequisite for our workshops.
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Using High-Performance Computing Systems
A gentle introduction to workload managers (queuing systems) and shared computational resources, this lesson forms the heart of HPC Carpentry.
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Building High-Performance Computing Workflows with Snakemake
If you've launched one job, you might as well launch a thousand... but use a tool to manage your workflow! This lesson uses Snakemake to orchestrate a scaling study, an important step in understanding the limits of any parallel application.
