Forests in HPC

Tuesday 13 Dec 2022, 09:00 → 14:00 Europe/Berlin

Dorothea Sommer (GWDG), Hauke Kirchner (GWDG)

The GWDG aims to support forest-related research with its high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. Therefore, the first online workshop Forests in HPC is organized on 13.12.2022 from 09:00 to 14:00.

During the first part of the workshop, two hands-on tutorials will be provided to demonstrate the utilization of HPCs. After that, we would like to have an open discussion about emerging topics in your field of research and how HPCs can help to overcome limitations (topics such as big data analysis, scalable AI, data management, ...).

Participants of this workshop will get temporary accounts for the HPC system, which they can use to explore our HPC further after the workshop.

The hands-on tutorials briefly introduce how to use the HPC system for an earth observation analysis in the context of forests. The first part of this will demonstrate an R-based workflow on the example of the lidR-Package[1]. Here we will talk about setting up the environment for the analysis and running jobs with SLURM. The second part will demonstrate an example of deep learning with Python. Here we will also show how to request appropriate hardware with SLURM, such as GPU-Nodes.

This workshop is open to all researchers in Germany.

We especially invite researchers from the NHR [2], the Max Planck Society, University of Göttingen. However, everyone with interest in HPC and Forests is welcome.

Requirements: basic programming skills (preferably in R or Python).

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please register here: Registration

 

This workshop is supported by the NHR [2] and the ForestCARE [3] project.

We look forward to your participation.

Dorothea Sommer and Hauke Kirchner

[1] https://github.com/r-lidar/lidR
[2] https://www.nhr-verein.de/
[3] https://hps.vi4io.org/research/projects/forestcare/

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome

Prof. Dr. Julian Kunkel, Hauke Kirchner and Dorothea Sommer will welcome the attendees.

Speakers: Dorothea Sommer (GWDG), Hauke Kirchner (GWDG), Julian Kunkel (GWDG)

09:05 → 09:25 Introduction

Introduction to the workshop and get started with the HPC.

Speakers: Azat Khuziyakhmetov (GWDG), Dorothea Sommer (GWDG), Hauke Kirchner (GWDG)

09:30 → 11:00 Hands-on: R-based workflow

Speaker: Hauke Kirchner (GWDG)

11:15 → 12:45 Hands-on: deep learning with Python

Speaker: Dorothea Sommer (GWDG)

13:00 → 14:00 Discussion

We would like to have an open discussion about emerging topics in your field of research and how HPCs can help to overcome limitations (topics such as big data analysis, scalable AI, data management, ...).