In order to successfully complete this assignment you need to participate both individually and in groups during class. Have one of the instructors check your notebook and sign you out before leaving class.
ICA 8: Internal Tour of the HPCC#
Agenda for today’s class (70 minutes)#
1. Review Pre-class assignment#
✅ DO THIS: With your group discuss the difference between the “source” and “bash” functions. Summarize your discussion below.
write your summary here
✅ DO THIS: What command would you use to give everyone read only access to file.txt?
write your code here
2. List Hardware Topography aka lstopo (HWLOC)#
Development nodes as of 01/11/2021
dev-intel14
dev-intel14-k20
dev-intel16
dev-intel16-k80
dev-intel18
dev-amd20
dev-amd20-v100
✅ DO THIS: Run the lstopo command on each of the development nodes. Screenshot the results and submit the images with your ICA today. To make this faster, split the nodes up amongst your group.
3. Stream Benchmark#
Working with your ICA teams, each team will download and run the Stream Benchmark on a different login node:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/
Put results in our timing file: Benchmark Studies
4. Tour of the HPCC#
In preparation for our tour of the HPCC next Friday, the HPCC system admin has shared this video with us and encouraged everyone to check it out. Take a few minutes to watch the video with your group.
https://icer.msu.edu/News/A-Day-in-the-Life-of-a-System-Administrator
We discussed this last class, but if you are ever curious to see what the current utilization is for the HPCC you can check out the dashboard below. This is a great resource to check when planning to work on a large project, to get an idea of how busy the resources so that you can plan accordingly.
https://icer.msu.edu/dashboard
Congratulations, we’re done!#
If you attend class in-person then have one of the instructors check your notebook and sign you out before leaving class. Turn in your assignment using D2L.
Written by Dr. Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University (Updated by Dr. Nathan Haut in Spring 2025)
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