Workshop
Introduction to ALICE Workshop
- Date
- Friday 15 November 2024
- Time
- Explanation
- The workshop begins at 10am.
- Location
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Johan Huizinga
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden - Room
- Digital Lab, Huizinga 0.09
High Performance Computing and Digital Humanities: Introduction to ALICE
This workshop offers an introduction to the ALICE High Performance Computing facility at Leiden University. ALICE is a Linux computing cluster with hundreds of times more power than a single personal computer. Many intensive tasks that would otherwise be cumbersome or inefficient can be managed easily on ALICE by running on multiple CPUs or GPUs in parallel. What this means in practice is that programs that would take months of time on a conventional laptop can often be completed in mere hours on the cluster. Learning to use the standard Slurm request system and other features of ALICE also helps to lay the groundwork for using other HPC systems in the Netherlands and throughout the world.
The intended audience for this workshop is Leiden University researchers with some knowledge of Python or other programming languages, who would like to know how to run their programs more efficiently.
Participants will learn how to get an account on ALICE, connect to ALICE, properly format and submit Slurm requests, manage submitted jobs, modify their own programs to utilize all processors efficiently, and develop a data pipeline for connecting their ALICE jobs to other parts of their projects.
Everyone is welcome, but please register with the link below so we know to expect you. There will also be time during the workshop for advanced participants to discuss advanced features, including undocumented commands, invoking Slurm utilities from bash scripts, reading error logs, and monitoring running jobs in a variety of ways.