P64: romeoLAB : HPC Training Platform on HPC facility
SessionPoster Reception
Authors
Event Type
ACM Student Research Competition
Poster
Reception
TimeTuesday, November 14th5:15pm -
7pm
LocationFour Seasons Ballroom
DescriptionIn this pre-exascale era, we are observing a dramatic
increase of the necessity of computer science courses
dedicated to parallel programming with advanced
technologies on hybrid architectures. The full hybrid
cluster Romeo has long been used for that purpose in
order to train master students and cluster users. The
main issue for trainees is the cost of accessing and
exploiting a production facility in a pedagogic context.
The use of some specific techniques and software (SSH,
workload manager, remote file system, …) is mandatory
without being part of courses prerequisites nor
pedagogic objectives. The romeoLAB platform we developed
at ROMEO HPC Center is an online interactive pedagogic
platform for HPC technologies courses. Its main purpose
is to simplify the process of resource usage in order to
focus on the taught subjects. This paper presents the
context, the romeoLAB architecture and its motivations,
usages and pedagogical contents.
