SDSC hosted webinar on "HPC Hardware Overview" presented by Nicole Wolter, Computational and Data Science Research Specialist, SDSC, UC San Diego.
All users of advanced CI can benefit from a basic understanding of the hardware to determine which factors affect application performance. In this session we provide an overview including CPUs (processors, cores, hyperthreading, instruction sets), the anatomy of a compute node (sockets, memory, attached devices, accelerators) and cluster architecture (login and compute nodes, interconnects, file systems). We also cover how to obtain hardware information using Linux tools, pseudo-filesystems and commonly used hardware utilization monitoring tools.
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Instructor
Nicole Wolter is a Computational and Data Science Research Specialist in the High-Performance Computing User Services Group at SDSC. She currently manages the accounts and allocations and provides user support for the three HPC systems at SDSC. Nicole graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in Computer Science in 2001. She is currently involved in working with and helping users porting their AI applications to SDSC’s NSF funded AI supercomputer - Voyager.
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