Intro to HPC and RSE for Speech and Language Technologies CDT PhD students

2 October 2019 - 11:30-12:00

Computer Science, University of Sheffield

Will Furnass, University of Sheffield

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The University of Sheffield now hosts a new UKRI-funded Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Speech and Language Technologies (SLT). It is anticipated that 60 PhD students will be involved with this CDT over a period of 8 years, with many being based in the Department of Computer Science.

This talk (slides) is for the first cohort of PhD students and covers:

• What high-performance computing (HPC) clusters are and why they can be useful in research environments;
• The HPC clusters available at TUOS and the ring-fenced resources the Dept of Computer Science has in these clusters;
• Moving data to/from HPC systems and options for storing data;
• Using a job scheduler such as Grid Engine to run interactive and batch jobs;
• How to load/install/manage software on HPC systems;
• Options for improving performance, inc. via parallelisation;
• Larger and/or more specialised HPC systems and cloud computing;
• Getting support from RSE team and IT Services and collaborating with the RSE team.