Workshops

We offer beginning and advanced workshops on concepts ranging from the basics of utilizing monsoon as well as how to get the most out of the resources provided to you and your group. Our workshops are usually offered in a hybrid format so that you can attend in-person or remotely via Microsoft Teams. We recommend attending in person when possible! On this page you will find our schedule of upcoming workshops as well as links to previous sessions and slides.

Make sure your HPC account has been created prior to attending workshops as a valid account is essential for participation in the workshops.

Helpful Tip: Linux on the command-line is a great beginner friendly resource for those who are just starting with Monsoon!

Workshop Dates

Introduction to Monsoon and Slurm

This introductory orientation training is a fundamental aspect to creating and validating your monsoon account.

It is important to review the slides and complete the four exercises to keep your Monsoon account active.

• Slides: primary workshop resource
• Workshop Recording: recent workshop recording
• On-Demand Walkthrough: walkthough of OnDemand features

This two-hour workshop will cover the following topics:

• Basic cluster education
• Introduction to NAU’s cluster named “Monsoon”, how it originated, user-specific details
• Introduction to Slurm, overview on commands and methodology
• Exercises to apply key concepts

In-Depth Monsoon and Slurm

This workshop assumes prior monsoon experience and focuses on parallelism and job arrays.

• Slides: primary workshop resource
• Workshop Recording: recent workshop recording

This two-hour workshop will cover the following topics:

• Parallelism
  • Slurm Arrays
  • MPI Programming
• New “free” qos
• Installing Software Packages
• Globus and File Management

Linux command-line for HPC

This workshop covers the majority of command-line “basics” that can help researchers navigate and build job scripts for the Monsoon cluster.

• Slides: primary workshop resource (PDF)
• Workshop recording: includes recordings on collections and data transfers.

This 2-hour workshop will cover the following topics:

• What is linux?
• The command-line and shell
• Navigating the file-system
• Managing files
• Dealing with text & processes

Globus

This workshop goes through the introduction of Globus- a file manager and transfer system that allows users to transfer data to the Monsoon cluster.

• Slides: primary workshop resource (PDF Version)
• Workshop Recordings: includes recordings on collections and data transfers.

This 1.5-hour workshop will cover the following topics:

• Data transfers
  • Transferring information from a local computer to Monsoon
• Collections
  • Creating Guest and Mapped Collections
• Personal endpoints for workstations
• Command Line Interface Using Globus
• File Permissions