Course Overview

This course is designed to extend the system administrator's and end user's knowledge of Grid Engine by covering the detailed aspects of its functionality and commands. The course empowers administrators to translate business goals into a Grid Engine configuration and enables advanced end users to create workflows to efficiently use the workload management system.

The class provides valuable experience with the gathering of site-defined shared resources, such as licenses, the configuration of job submission and execution environments for classic and containerized workloads (e.g. Docker), GPU management, dynamic cluster configurations, and more.

Hands-on exercises and practical troubleshooting tips are integrated into the course.

Who should attend the course?

This advanced course is designed for system administrators and advanced end users who are responsible for extending the role of Grid Engine in site-defined cluster resource management and require the implementation of job and resource controls.

The course content is applicable to all versions of Grid Engine.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of Linux or Unix operating system
• Basic knowledge of Unix shell (like bash/csh/ksh and vi editor)
• Basic knowledge of system administration concepts and parallel programming models (shared memory/distributed memory)
• Basic knowledge of practical Grid Engine (or similar) administration skills or advanced Grid Engine user experience is advantageous but not required