High-Performance Computing and Livermore Computing Division

Rigoberto Moreno Delgado and Jean Shuler
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

The Livermore Computing Division (LCD) mission is to develop and support the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory high performance scientific computing environment, including world-class supercomputers, file systems, archival storage, data analysis resources, and other production-quality, secure services. LCD develops tools, system software, and an application infrastructure that enables effective use of computing resources. The LCD staff provide user services, training, documentation, and consulting that support usability, accessibility, and reliability for the computing systems.

The HPC Cluster Engineer Academy is a 9-week paid internship that will give you direct experience with running and maintaining high performance computing (HPC) systems. Although it doesn’t get much attention in traditional academic coursework, cluster engineering is a main focus of HPC centers around the world. For every software developer or computational scientist who enjoys a fast, reliable, and up-to-date computer system, there’s a cluster engineer who maintains it. As an HPC Academy intern, you’ll learn the basics of cluster engineering and system installation under the guidance of our experts. This internship provides practical, real-world application of knowledge no HPC center—like LLNL—can live without. This 9-week internship will start at a low level with the basics of shell scripting, distributed version control software, and compiling/porting files on Linux systems. Then we will move on to system installation and eventually we'll get into some networking, security, file systems, and various High Performance Computing topics. The first 5-6 weeks will be spent with lectures combined with testing and hands-on work building a test cluster. The final three to four weeks will be group projects making use of these skills. For the group projects, the students will be divided into teams of students. At the end of the program the students will have a tangible project they present to the Livermore Computing staff.