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Intro to cloud HPC

Training course covering all your need to know to start using Nimbus. From Linux and job scheduling to software modules, VMs and running jobs in parallel.

  • 19 Jun 2023, 10.00am to 19 Jun 2023, 4.00pm BST (GMT +01:00)
  • This is an online event.
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For academic staff and PhD students

Solve your research problems by harnessing the power of Bath's Nimbus cloud supercomputer.

High performance computing (HPC) is used in all academic disciplines - from big data analysis in social sciences to engineering simulations, physical sciences modelling and business-related forecasting.

Next training date

  • Monday 19 June, 10.00am - 4.00pm (online event)

Please submit a TopDesk ticket to book your place and let us know which training date you would like to join.

Schedule

  • 10.00 - 10.15 Course overview and your test account set up.

  • 10.15 - 10.45 Nimbus cloud HPC: RCAM (Research Computing Account Management) portal, compute partitions, filesystem, costs, available software, Open On Demand. Nimbus training material, RCAM training material.

  • 10.45 - 13.00 Introduction to Unix Shell: Navigating the file system, working with files, automating simple tasks, and creating shell scripts. Training material

  • 13.00 - 13.30 Lunchbreak

  • 13.30 - 15.30 Introduction to HPC: Clusters, connecting to remote machines, file transfer, job scheduling, software modules, running a parallel job. Training material

  • 15.30 - 16.00 Q&As and course feedback.

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Research Computing

We accelerate scientific discovery by giving researchers access to:

  • Powerful supercomputing environments
  • Research software development expertise and training

How we can support your research