Online ARCHER Training
There are a number of ways that you can access ARCHER training materials online if you cannot attend the ARCHER training courses in person.
Course Materials Repository
Material from previous face-to-face ARCHER courses is available in the Course Materials Repository. This typically includes PDF copies of all the slides and exercise sheets, source code for the exercises and any solutions provided.
Virtual Tutorials
Material from the ARCHER webinars is available from the the Virtual Tutorials and Webinars page. This typically includes video recordings of each online session and a PDF copy of the slides.
YouTube Channel
All video recordings related to the ARCHER service are available on the ARCHER YouTube Channel. This also includes a number of short videos covering specific topics such as using the ARCHER SAFE.
Specific Courses
We have collected together relevant material for a number of core topics.
Scientific Computing
Video recordings of the four afternoon sessions introducing HPC
Message-Passing Programming with MPI
- Video recordings of all the MPI lectures from the 2014 ARCHER Summer School.
- Associated course materials including slides, exercises and coding examples.
Introduction to ARCHER
This material givese details on the ARCHER hardware and software environment, and assumes familiarity with general HPC concepts (e.g. as covered in Introduction to HPC below).
Documentation
- The ARCHER Quickstart Guide is a good place to start for information on how to get up and running on ARCHER.
- The first two sections of the ARCHER Data Management Guide give a general overview of file systems and data transfer mechanisms.
Slides
- Overview of material and high-level description of the ARCHER system
- Details of how ARCHER is constructed from Intel CPUs and the Cray Aries interconnect, plus a high-level software overview
- Details on compiling and submitting parallel jobs to ARCHER
- Data management on ARCHER
- Introduction to the Research Data Facility and Data Analytic Cluster
Videos
These videos are recordings of the five lectures above.
- Overview of material
- Details of how ARCHER is constructed
- Details on compiling and submitting jobs
- Data management on ARCHER
- Introduction to the Research Data Facility and Data Analytic Cluster
These videos are recordings of ARCHER Virtual Tutorials covering relevant topics.
Introduction to HPC
This material covers topics relevant to HPC and Parallel Computing
as a whole, although ARCHER is often used as a specific
example.
All material comes from a run of the Hands-on Introduction to HPC
course, held at EPCC in summer 2016.
Note that, even if you are unable to run the practical examples
on ARCHER, the exercise sheets have useful general information on how
to use HPC systems (e.g. compilation and job submission on ARCHER) so
are worth reading in their own right.
All the example codes should be easily portable to other systems
with appropriate changes to Makefiles and batch submission scripts. If
you have any questions, please contact the support@archer.ac.uk
Videos
See this playlist on the ARCHER YouTube channel which is a complete recording of the course.
Slides
Slides are available from the Past Course Materials Repository.
Exercises
Exercises are available from the Past Course Materials Repository.
