Get Certified with Rescale
March 22nd @ 9:00AM PST
Earn your Rescale Certified User Expert credential and quickly gain the knowledge and skills you need to maximize your effectiveness with the Rescale platform in this 1-day instructor-led course.
March 22nd @ 9:00Am PST
$1,295/student
remote
Who is this training for?
This training is intended for Rescale end users, who run their HPC simulations on the cloud through Rescale. While this training does go over basic administrator functionalities, a separate administrator-focused training course will be offered to Rescale administrator users.
Prerequisites for this course:
- Familiarity with running one or more HPC applications
- Basic familiarity with running HPC applications on a cluster
Full Training Details
Getting Started
○ Platform, UI, & workflow overview
○ Workshop: Customizing user profiles
- API key
- SSH setup
- CIDR Rules
- MFA setup (optional)
- How to review billings
○ How Rescale works: “behind the scenes”
Basic Jobs:
○ Rescale Job types and when to choose each
○ Basic Job setup and guidelines
○ Workshop: Running a Basic Job
Cloud HPC 101:
○ History of HPC
○ Introduction to parallel computing
○ Core parallelization concepts
○ HPC hardware components & software paradigms
○ Cloud infrastructure & core concepts
○ HPC in the cloud
Desktops
○ Running applications interactively
○ Rescale Desktop types & options
○ Saving and transferring data in a remote desktop context
○ Snapshots and checkpointing
○ Desktop client options
○ Workshop: Post-Processing with a Classic Desktop
Storage
○ File handling, management policies, and storage options on Rescale
○ High-performance Storage (HPS) devices
○ Storage costs
○ Workshops: Launching an HPS & Attaching an HPS
○ HPS Best Practices
Administration & Software Licensing
○ Team & Budget management
○ Organization, workspace, & group admin controls
○ Software licensing models for software run on Rescale
○ Software licensing connection options
○ On-demand licensing
○ License troubleshooting
Advanced Topics Overview
○ Design of Experiments Jobs
○ Rescale Command Line Interface (CLI)
○ Automating workflows with REST API
○ Checkpointing and restarting simulations
Key Result
At the conclusion of the course, students will take a final test and become Rescale Certified User Experts, and will receive a digital badge certification credential.