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| It covers generic and widely used concepts that serve the purpose to maximize the efficiency of a supercomputer. | It covers generic and widely used concepts that serve the purpose to maximize the efficiency of a supercomputer. | ||
| - | Batch jobs submitted to a job queue define the workloads in batch systems. A workload | + | Batch jobs submitted to a job queue define the workloads in batch systems. |
| - | manager of a cluster system typically deals with | + | A workload manager of a cluster system typically deals with: |
| * Job Control to provide a user interface for submitting jobs to job queues, monitoring their state during processing (e.g. to check their estimated starting time), and intervening in their execution (e.g. to abort them manually) | * Job Control to provide a user interface for submitting jobs to job queues, monitoring their state during processing (e.g. to check their estimated starting time), and intervening in their execution (e.g. to abort them manually) | ||
| * Scheduling and Resource Management to select a waiting job for execution and to allocate nodes to the job meeting all its other demands for computing resources (memory, special processing elements like GPUs, etc.) | * Scheduling and Resource Management to select a waiting job for execution and to allocate nodes to the job meeting all its other demands for computing resources (memory, special processing elements like GPUs, etc.) | ||
| * Accounting to record historical data about how many computing resources (e.g. computing time) have been consumed by a job | * Accounting to record historical data about how many computing resources (e.g. computing time) have been consumed by a job | ||
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| # Aim | # Aim | ||
| - | To enable practitioners to comprehend and describe the basic architecture and concepts of resource allocation for an HPC system | + | To enable practitioners to comprehend and describe the basic architecture and concepts of resource allocation for an HPC system. |
| # Outcomes | # Outcomes | ||
| - | * Comprehend the exclusive and shared usage model in HPC | + | * Comprehend the exclusive and shared usage model in HPC. |
| - | * Differentiate batch and interactive job submission | + | * Differentiate batch and interactive job submission. |
| - | * Comprehend the generic concepts and architecture of resource manager, scheduler, job and job script | + | * Comprehend the generic concepts and architecture of resource manager, scheduler, job and job script. |
| - | * Explain environment variables as a means to communicate | + | * Explain environment variables as a means to communicate. |
| - | * Comprehend accounting principles | + | * Comprehend accounting principles. |
| - | * Explain the generic steps to run and monitor a single job | + | * Explain the generic steps to run and monitor a single job. |
| - | * Comprehend scheduling principles (first come first served, shortest job first, backfilling) to achieve objectives like minimizing the averaged elapsed program runtimes, and maximizing the utilization of the available HPC resources | + | * Comprehend scheduling principles (first come first served, shortest job first, backfilling) to achieve objectives like minimizing the averaged elapsed program runtimes, and maximizing the utilization of the available HPC resources. |
| # Subskills | # Subskills | ||
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