2024-07-10 AI Training Series - High Performance Data Analytics Using R at LRZ (hdta5s24)

Contents

R is a highly popular and powerful programming language for data analysis and graphics, used in many research domains. The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) is addressing the needs of R users by facilitating various ways of working with R on LRZ systems.

For one it is hosting a RStudio Server web application as frontend to the LRZ AI Systems. This is an easy to use and powerful, interactive platform for data analytics, machine learning and AI projects. Additionally, R can be used on the high performance computing (HPC) systems operated by LRZ, the Linux Cluster and SuperMUC-NG.

In this course, the different possibilities of using R for data analytics, machine learning and AI projects at LRZ will be demonstrated and experienced in hands-on session. Guidelines and best practice examples for running R applications efficiently and productively on the various systems will be provided. Special attention will be paid to different ways of parallelizing R code in order to utilize various LRZ cluster systems. There will be breaks during the session.

There will be three content blocks of roughly one and a half hour each:

• The LRZ AI Systems and RStudio Server (B) / (I)
• RStudio Server for AI projects (B) / (I)
• R and the LRZ AI Systems: R package management and containerization (B) / (I)
  

• R on the LRZ Linux Cluster: environment modules, R package management (B) / (I)
• Slurm Workload Manager, interactive session, job processing (B) / (I)
• Parallelization Using R: Overview and resources (I)
  
• Pleasingly parallel workloads (B) / (I)

• Introduction to worker queue scenario/weak coupling (incl. batchtools, clustermq) (I) / (A)
• Shared memory parallelization (parallel/doParallel, foreach) (I) / (A)
• Message passing (rmpi/doMPI) (I) / (A)
• Futures/Promises (parallel, future, doFuture) (A)
• Workflow management (targets, crew) (A)

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of R
• AI Training Series: Orientation Session (or comparable previous knowledge)
  
• AI Training Series: Introduction to Container Technology & Application to AI at LRZ (or comparable previous knowledge)
• AI Training Series: Introduction to the LRZ AI Systems (or comparable previous knowledge)

Content Level

The content level of the course is broken down as:

Language

English

Lecturers

Dr. Johannes Albert-von der Gönna (LRZ)

Prices and Eligibility

The course is open and free of charge for academic participants from Germany.

Registration

Please register with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation.

Withdrawal Policy

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