bwHPC Courses at KIT

Published: 6 Apr 2022 by HPC Team Freiburg

The Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will be hosting the following courses.

Introductory Course: HPC and Data Management in Baden-Württemberg

Date: 07.04.2022, 9:30 to 15:45 CEST

TThis course is aimed at (future) users of the bwHPC clusters (bwUniCluster 2.0, bwForClusters) and BaWü data federation and covers information about access and usage of bwHPC clusters and storage systems. Details and registration can be found at https://indico.scc.kit.edu/event/2667/.

Intermediate Course: Advanced HPC and Data Management topics

Date: 13.04.2022: 9:30 to 15:45 CEST

This course aims at providing participants with further insights into the efficient usage of the HPC Clusters and storage systems. Details and registration can be found at https://indico.scc.kit.edu/event/2666/.

For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to welcoming you at the courses.

The use of a second factor to secure logins to services is becoming increasingly mandatory. bwHPC currently uses time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) or Yubico OTP as a second factor for SSH logins. We have looked at some hardware security tokens for bwIDM/bwHPC that can be used instead of a mobile phone.

The initial partition of NEMO2, consisting of around 140 Milan nodes and 1000 terabytes (one petabyte) of high-speed storage space, has been ordered. A tender for a GPU partition and a second CPU partition will be opened in early 2024.

We will enforce two-factor authentication for NEMO logins in November. Currently, this security feature can be tested on our vis1/2 visualization nodes.