CCSE Successfully Holds its First Intensive User Training at Library

After intense tests, “Tai-Yi”, SUSTech’s second HPC cluster has been available for the university’s faculty and students since Dec 18, 2018. Currently, the “Tai-Yi” cluster runs smoothly. On the afternoon of Jan 17, 2019, CCSE organized its first intensive training for “Tai-Yi” users at Conference Room 110, Lynn Library, to further improve the use efficiency of the “Tai-Yi” cluster and resolve technical problems facing the users. Nearly 200 people attended this training.

CCSE training users at Lynn Library

Before the training, Dr. Fan Jing, chief engineer of CCSE, briefly introduced the department's personnel structure and resource application regulations. Fan's introduction was followed by an one-hour system operation training delivered by Mr. Zhong, an engineer from Lenovo. The training content includes the computational resources, system architecture, and regular usage of “Tai-Yi”, together with related Linux basis. The conference room was chock-a-block, and people attending the training listened to the introduction and usage carefully. After the training session, presented teachers and students actively asked questions about software compiling, program optimization, and shared compilers' naming convention, etc., and the engineers gave detailed explanation to each question. Users expressed that the training is very useful for their use of the “Tai-Yi” HPC.

CCSE training users at Lynn Library

In the future, the Center for Computational Science and Engineering will periodically collect technical problems encountered by users when operating the cluster, and organize more targeted trainings regularly.

Source: Center for Computational Science and Engineering