2025-01-29-Turing-training

29-31 January, 2025

Repository for materials used at the Baskerville Training workshop held for our partners at The Alan Turing Institute.

📆 Schedule

To be held in Enigma 2.0 and virtually.

29th January

Zoom Link: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/94921712203?pwd=UElmL3BxcE01TGZSb3ZNM01NdHk3dz09

Time	Name	Description	Duration	Instructor
10:00 - 11:00	Coffee	-	1h	-
11:00 - 12:00	Intro to Baskerville HPC	Introduction to the cluster, how to acknowledge, logging in, architecture & system explaination	1h	Gavin Yearwood
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch	–	1h	–
13:00 - 14:00	Intro to Baskerville Portal	Baskerville Portal Demo, Tensorboad, JupyterLab and NVDashboard	1h	Gavin Yearwood
14:00 - 15:15	Non-Interactive Batch Jobs	Submitting jobs on Baskerville using sbatch	1h15m	Tom Neep
15:15 - 15:30	Coffee	-	15m	-
15:30 - 17:00	Interactive Jobs and Tmux	Using srun to start interactive jobs and using Tmux	1h30m	Gavin Yearwood

30th January

Zoom Link: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/97938960440?pwd=OWZjUGxOUlpyVFUyRnQ2MHNRR1RBQT09

Time	Name	Description	Duration	Instructor
09:00 - 10:30	Self-installed Software	Self-installation using pip and miniforge (conda)	1h30m	Simon Hartley
10:30 - 12:00	Container, Ollama, modifying scripts	Using Containers and modifyng installation scripts with Ollama case study	1h30m	Simon Hartley
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch	–	1h	–
13:00 - 15:00	Parallel compute with MPI	Introduction to MPI and mpi4py and converting gpt2 to use multiple GPUs with MPI	2h	Gavin Yearwood && David Llewellyn-Jones
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee	-	15m	-
15:15 - 17:00	Profiling and optimising ML workloads	Example presented using Nvidia's NSight profiler	1h45m	James Biship and Boyko Vodenicharski

31st January

Zoom Link: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/96908071754?pwd=vaXGzqbRZ58wiUNpUBZfLzrU9dXkqI.1

09:00 - 12:00 The Baskerville team will be available to assist all HPC queries in the drop-in

Visit the Margaret Hamilton Meeting Room or join virtually.