Workshop: Leverage web GUI interface for research application development with GPU on Student HPC Platform

Date: 26 Jul 2023 (Wed)

Time: 14:30 – 17:00

Target Audience: All Students

Venue: Online via MS Teams & On-site at M403

Pre-requisite: Basic programming skills

Medium of Instruction: English

Course Description：

Open OnDemand is an open-source web portal that enables students to remotely access the PolyU student HPC platform using a web browser. Users can utilize the web GUI interface to run, test, and develop applications with GPU support for research purposes on the Student HPC Platform.

• Develop Python application with GPU support with Jupyter notebook
• Develop R application with GPU support with RStudio
• Perform files and folders management
• Carry out job submission and check job status
• Web GUI-based SSH client connecting to Student HPC Platform – GPU Cluster

Course Outline:

1. Introduction of Student HPC platform
2. Account Application
3. Available Resources
4. Core operations on Student HPC platform
   • Job script preparation
   • Job submission
   • Check job status
5. Introduction of Anaconda
6. Practical use of web GUI interface on Student HPC Platform

• Files and folders management
• HPC job management
• Access GPU cluster using web GUI-based SSH client
• Development with Python with web GUI interface: Jupyter notebook
• Development with R with web GUI interface: RStudio