Starts 9 Mar 2020
Ends 20 Mar 2020
Central European Time
Hands-on Workshop on Design, Installation and Management of HPC Data Centers for Scientific Institutions * CANCELLED *| (smr 3430)
ICTP
ex SISSA Room D
via Beirut, 2-4
I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 February up to 15 May as precautionary measures due to COVID-19; more details at
https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_activities.aspx
This hands-on activity brings together participants and resource persons from IT units/departments of scientific institutions that have deployed or are considering deploying small to medium sized HPC equipment to share standards, experiences and best-practices for the design, management of Data centers for HPC equipment.
You must be from an IT unit/department to apply.
Topics:
https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_activities.aspx
This hands-on activity brings together participants and resource persons from IT units/departments of scientific institutions that have deployed or are considering deploying small to medium sized HPC equipment to share standards, experiences and best-practices for the design, management of Data centers for HPC equipment.
You must be from an IT unit/department to apply.
Topics:
- Data Centre: Facilities planing; provisioning, networking and optimization of power and cooling, etc
- Installation, provisioning, configuration and maintenance of computer clusters/servers, storage and software.
- Day-to-day operations of HPC systems including systems administration, monitoring and performance optimization.
- Installation and maintenance of system software stack and tools, building and deploying open source software and supporting scientific applications.
- Other topics: Green data centers; harnessing cloud based resources.
Organizers
Guarav Bajpai (University of Rwanda, Rwanda), Hakizumwami Birali Runesha (University of Chicago, USA), Paul Caleja (Cambridge University, UK), Happy Sithole (CHPC/CSIR South Africa), Ivan Girotto (ICTP), Local Organiser: Clement Onime
