Nikhef HTCondor Tutorial - Amsterdam

Monday 23 Sept 2024, 12:30 → 18:25 Europe/Amsterdam

Veltman Center (3rd floor) (Nikhef, Amsterdam)

Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Mary Hester (Nikhef), Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin -Madiaon)

On Monday 23 September 1230-1800, the HTCondor and Nikhef PDP teams will hold a tutorial for Nikhef HTCondor users. 

Topics that will be covered include: how to better understand your condor jobs, DAGs, troubleshooting, and GPUs, among other topics.

Also if you have any problems working with HTCondor, now is your chance to bring your problem in front of the experts, so we hope you will join!

Requirements for the tutorial

You will need:

• a Nikhef account and be able to ssh to login.nikhef.nl (for example);
• have a passphrase-protected ssh key (if not, please follow the instructions at: https://kb.nikhef.nl/ct/SSH_access_and_configuration.html#generating-a-key);
• a laptop with a terminal emulator (iterm2, xterm, PuTTY);
• (optional) have the eduVPN Institute Access enabled on your laptop using your Nikhef credentials: https://kb.nikhef.nl/ct/eduVPN.html#instructions.

12:30 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:15 Placing job lists

Speaker: Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin -Madiaon)

09 24 Nikhef JList.pdf

13:15 → 13:35 What happened to my job?

Speaker: Dr Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides

13:35 → 13:50 Data placement: Getting data to your job

Speaker: Dr Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

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13:50 → 14:20 Troubleshooting: Approaches and strategies

Speaker: Dr Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

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14:20 → 14:40 Considerations for GPU jobs - Software, Usage stats, Common Issues

Speaker: Dr Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

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14:40 → 14:50 Break

14:50 → 15:30 Principles of DAGMan

Speaker: Dr Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

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15:30 → 16:10 Hands on: DAGMan

Speaker: Dr Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Materials

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16:10 → 16:30 Intro to Python bindings

Speaker: Dr Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

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16:30 → 16:50 Hands on: Python bindings

Speaker: Dr Andrew Owen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

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16:50 → 17:00 Computing at Nikhef: Working with shared resources

Speaker: Mary Hester (Nikhef)

17:00 → 17:25 Philosophy architecture: what the manual won't tell you

Speaker: Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin -Madiaon)

09 24 Nikhef Phil.pdf

17:25 → 18:25 Borrel @ Polder