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author: Alexandre Strube // Sabrina Benassou
title: Course: Bringing Deep Learning Workloads to JSC supercomputers
# subtitle: A primer in supercomputers`
date: June 25, 2024
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Dear students,
the next "Bringing Deep Learning Workloads to JSC supercomputers" course is approaching! Thank you all very much for your participation.
The course is online, over zoom. It might be recorded. This is the link: https://go.fzj.de/bringing-dl-workloads-to-jsc-zoom
IMPORTANT - Please check all steps! Some things need to be done a day BEFORE the course!!!
Checklist for BEFORE the course:
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If you don't have one, make an account on JuDOOR, our portal: https://judoor.fz-juelich.de/register Instruction video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DfiNBP4Gta0av4lQmubkXIXzr2FW4a-/view
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Joining the course's project: https://go.fzj.de/bringing-dl-workloads-to-jsc-project-join
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Sign the usage agreements, as shown in this video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mEN1GmWyGFp75uMIi4d6Tpek2NC_X8eY/view
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Install software (see below). On windows you DO need administrator rights. We can't support other softwares during the course.
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We will use Slack for communication. Please log in BEFORE the course: https://go.fzj.de/bringing-dl-workloads-to-jsc-slack
What software is necessary for this course?
The course is platform-independent. It can even be followed by a Windows user, but if possible, avoid it. In general. Forever.
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Visual Studio Code: it's a free editor which we will demo on this course. Get it from https://code.visualstudio.com/download
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Visual Studio Code Remote Development: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack
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Visual Studio: Remote - SSH: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh
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(WINDOWS ONLY): WSL. This installs the WSL support for Visual Studio Code, which will install WSL itself (And Ubuntu). https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl - This is a long install, take your time. PLEASE MAKE SURE WSL IS ACTUALLY INSTALLED - Try running it. Check this example: https://pureinfotech.com/install-windows-subsystem-linux-2-windows-10/
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A terminal. On Linux and Mac, it's just called "Terminal". Little familiarity with it is required. On windows, the WSL installs it.
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sshcommand. It's installed by default on Mac and Linux, and should be on Windows after the aforementioned steps. -
Some knowledge of the Python language.
The course material is available at https://go.fzj.de/bringing-dl-workloads-to-jsc - I will be making some final commits to it, so make sure you reload it every now and then.
See you soon,
Alex and Sabrina