High Performance Computing in Life Sciences

Interested in High Performance Computing (HPC) but you have no or little experience? Developed by the ELIXIR CH node and funded by ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, this asynchronous e-learning course can be completed online, at the desired pace and in the absence of an instructor.

Overview

This e-learning course presents the general concepts about High Performance Computing (HPC) in life sciences. Examples are taken from the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Vital-IT cluster, but concepts have been adapted to fit most if not all HPC systems in life sciences.

Topics:

1. Motivation: why use HPC?
2. General HPC concepts
3. Job submission - scripts
4. File management and storage

Audience

This e-learning course is addressed to users with no or little with no or little experience in the use of high-performance infrastructures.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the participants are expected to:

• correctly submit jobs on a cluster
• write scripts with several scheduler options
• handle and store data properly and safely

Prerequisites

Knowledge / competencies

Knowledge of UNIX is required - attendance of our 'First Steps with UNIX' course, completion of our UNIX fundamentals e-learning module or equivalent are required.

Technical

None.

Time required

2 hours

Instructions

Open the following e-learning module:

HPC e-learning module

Additional information

You are welcome to register to the SIB courses mailing list to be informed of all future courses and workshops, as well as all important deadlines using the form here.

Please note that participation in SIB courses is subject to our general conditions.

For more information, please contact training@sib.swiss.