Interactive Computing at MSI (Remote)

This tutorial will feature an in-room instructor at 575 Walter Library who is also broadcasting via Zoom. This sign-up is for the remote attendance option, if you would rather attend in-person (10 available seats), please sign up via the other Tutorial signup link.

This two part tutorial will first introduce you to the concept of interactive high performance computing, as distinct from batch computing. We will cover the Citrix (Windows) and NICE EnginFrame (Linux) interactive computing environments hosted by MSI. Attendees will learn how to launch virtual desktops at MSI, connect to a variety of resources, load software modules, and build complex research workflows.

The second half of this tutorial will provide attendees hands-on experience running interactive parallel jobs on the Mesabi HPC from the command line and using two popular development environments: IPython Notebooks and MATLAB. The instructors strongly encourage attendees to bring personal/work laptops for this event; software installation permissions will be required to install the remote desktop clients for Citrix and NICE.