The Minerva Supercomputer provides high-performance computing resources to the Mount Sinai community. We will be holding 3 information/training sessions for Minerva this spring. These sessions are intended to familiarize you with the Minerva environment. Basic understanding of the general Unix operating environment and Linux commands is expected.

 

All sessions will be offered in person at Icahn Room L3-36 and remotely through Zoom. Zoom links are provided following registration.

 

Session 1: Introduction to Minerva – Wednesday, March 22, 11:00AM-12:00PM

Click here to register for Introduction Session

Location: Icahn School of Medicine building (1425 Madison Ave) Room L3-36

Remote attendance: Zoom link provided following registration

This session will cover:

–       Minerva resources

–       Account and logging in

–       User software environment

–       Service on file transfers, web server, TSM archive and Rstudio connect server

 

Session 2: Load Sharing Facility (LSF) Job Scheduler – Wednesday, March 29, 11:00AM-12:00PM 

Click here to register for LSF Job Scheduler Session

Location: Icahn School of Medicine building (1425 Madison Ave) Room L3-36

Remote attendance: Zoom link provided following registration

This session will cover:

–       LSF introduction and basic/helpful LSF commands

–       Dependent job

–       Self-scheduler

–       Parallel jobs (job arrays, parallel processing and GPUs)

–       Job restart with checkpoint

–       Things to avoid

 

Session 3: Running Jupyter Notebook and RStudio on Minerva – Wednesday, April 5, 11:00AM-12:00PM 

Click here to register for Jupyter Notebook and Rstudio Session

Location: Icahn School of Medicine building (1425 Madison Ave) Room L3-36

Remote attendance: Zoom link provided following registration

This session will cover:

–       How to run Jupyter notebook

–       How to use containerized Rstudio and manage R packages within the container

 

Please register ahead of time for sessions. Please check our website for additional details and updates. Direct any questions to hpchelp@hpc.mssm.edu

 

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you.