BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AI Training Series - Orientation Session DTSTART:20260408T080000Z DTEND:20260409T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260424T164600Z UID:indico-event-359@spectra-indico-teszt.hinfra.hu DESCRIPTION:Contents\nBy joining this session\, participants will learn ab out the landscape of LRZ systems and services relevant to data analytics & AI users. Further\, they will be provided with the initial training of th e most essential skills needed to work with these systems (i.e. fundament als of GNU/Linux\, SSH). Participation in this Orientation Session should be considered a mandatory requirement for anyone interested in other sessi ons of the series.\nIt has been about 350 years that separate the original 1673 Leibniz mechanical calculator from today's Leibniz Supercomputing Ce ntre's (LRZ) facilities located on the Campus Garching. And yet\, the spir it has not changed. To paraphrase the German mathematician: "It is beneath the dignity of excellent people to waste their time in calculation when the work could just as accurately be done with the aid of a machine."\nPar ticipants joining this course will be provided with a comprehensive walkth rough and usage guides to contemporary types of such computing machines wh ich can be found at LRZ. In a general overview\, historical and current de velopments and trends in the field of scientific computing and cluster sy stems will be presented. This will\, amongst others\, address the followin g questions: How are modern cluster systems designed and how do they work? How did we come to High Performance Computing\, High Performance Data Ana lytics and High Performance AI? What makes a system adequate to a specific workload? How are these systems operated and how are they made available to their users?\nIn addition\, an introduction to GNU/Linux and the Unix Shell as well as the use of remote systems via Secure Shell (SSH) will be provided. GNU/Linux is a family of open source operating systems\, powerin g all different kinds of computing hardware (from mobile devices to high p erformance computing clusters... and pretty much everything in-between). T he typical command line interface is a Unix-like shell. It serves as inter active command environment and scripting language\, allowing users to cont rol the system\, and to automate tasks of varying complexity. SSH is a cry ptographic network protocol\, which is typically used to login and execute commands on remote (GNU/Linux) systems.\nThe introduction to GNU/Linux op ens with a short historical overview and some common concepts & terminolog y will be explained. Then the focus is directed toward working with the Un ix Shell. First\, it will be used to navigate the file system and director ies of a system\, then the mechanisms of file manipulation and ownership w ill be explored. Additional commands and concepts will be explained\, and characteristics as well as methods of manipulating the shell environment w ill be discussed.\nParticipants will be guided to install and configure a SSH client on their personal systems. Different applications for remote ac cess and file transfer will be introduced. A conceptual and practical intr oduction to SSH keys will be given\, followed by a discussion of more adva nced features like SSH tunneling and custom configuration options.\nThese skills will then be combined to further explore typical interaction method s and usage patterns of multiuser cluster systems\, including various poss ibilities of setting up user environments (e.g. environment variables and modules\, user space package managers\, containers) as well as tools for r esource allocation (i.e. Slurm Workload Manager) and efficient paralleliza tion (MPI\, OpenMP\, ...). Finally\, an overview of different compute clus ters as well as their storage systems operated by LRZ will be provided. Th e requirements for gaining access to these systems will be covered as well .\nParticipants will obtain a good understanding of the characteristics of multiuser cluster systems in general and will practise basic methods of t ypical interaction. They will acquire essential knowledge and skills neces sary to successfully interact with the command line interface of a GNU/Lin ux system. They will learn to use SSH in order to connect to and interact with different remote systems. They will familiarize themselves with the l andscape of cluster systems available at LRZ and this will allow them to c hoose the right system for their own compute projects.\nThe material will be presented as a combination of lectures\, demos and hands-on sessions\, with a focus on the latter. There will be breaks during the session.\nPrel iminary Agenda\n\n\nDay 1:\n\nHistory of computing\nBuilding intelligent m achines\nPanorama of systems at LRZ\nThe SLURM scheduler\n\nDay 2:\n\nBasi cs of Linux\nIntro to SSH\nSSH tunnels\n\n\n\nPrerequisites\n\nSome traini ng material will be provided prior to the actual course dates and particip ants are encouraged to study this by themselves in preparation of the even t.\n\n \nContent Level\nThe content level of the course is broken down as :\n\nBeginner's content: 6.75h (75%)\nIntermediate content: 2.25h (25%)\nA dvanced content: 0.0h (0%)\nCommunity-targeted content 0.0h (0%)\n\nLangua ge\nEnglish\nLecturers\nDr. Jophin John\, Florian Kaspar\, Dr. Martin Ohle rich\, and Sérgio Tafula (all LRZ)\nPrices and Eligibility\nThe course is open and free of charge for people from academia and industry from the Me mber States of the European Union and Associated/Other Countries to the H orizon 2020 programme.\nRegistration\nPlease register with your official e -mail address to prove your affiliation.\nWithdrawal Policy\nSee Withdrawa l\nLegal Notices\nFor registration for LRZ courses and workshops we use th e service edoobox from Etzensperger Informatik AG (www.edoobox.com). Etzen sperger Informatik AG acts as processor and we have concluded a Data Proce ssing Agreement with them.\nSee Legal Notices\n\nhttps://spectra-indico-te szt.hinfra.hu/event/359/ LOCATION:Online URL:https://spectra-indico-teszt.hinfra.hu/event/359/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR