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2.2 Hardware Overview

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SDSC Summer Institute 2023

Session 2.2 Hardware Overview

Date: Monday, August 7, 2023

Summary: All users of advanced CI can benefit from a basic understanding of hardware, to determine which factors affect application performance. Here we give an overview starting from CPUs (processors, cores, hyperthreading, instruction sets), the anatomy of a compute node (sockets, memory, attached devices, accelerators), to an overview of cluster architecture (login and compute nodes, interconnects). We also cover how to obtain hardware information using Linux tools, pseudo-filesystems and commonly used hardware utilization monitoring tools.

Presented by: Andreas Goetz (awgoetz @ucsd.edu)

Reading and Presentations:

  • Lecture material:
    • Presentation Slides: will be made available closer to the session
  • Source Code/Examples: N/A

TASKS: None at this time.