The Minerva Supercomputer provides high-performance computing resources to the Mount Sinai community. We will be holding 3 information/training sessions for Minerva this fall. These sessions are intended to familiarize you with the Minerva environment. Basic understanding of the general Unix operating environment and Linux commands is expected. Both sessions will be offered at Icahn Room L3-36 with Zoom link available for remote attendants as well. Zoom links are provided following registration.

 

Session 1: Introduction to Minerva – Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 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 – Friday, 30 September 2022, 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: Containerized Environment on Minerva – Friday, 7 October 2022, 11:00AM-12:00PM 

Click here to register for Containerized Environment Session

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

Remote attendance: Zoom link provided following registration

This session will cover:

–       Introduction to singularity container on Minerva with live demo

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

 

Please register ahead of time for sessions. Direct any questions to hpchelp@hpc.mssm.edu

 

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you!