Join us for a half-day online session introducing Olivia, our new HPC cluster built for high-throughput data workflows and GPU-accelerated AI.
We’ll cover how to install and manage software correctly, what’s new in hardware and storage (including how to stage data from NIRD), and how to run PyTorch efficiently on Olivia—complete with live demonstrations.
No registration is necessary, just join!
Date and time
Start: Dec 08 2025 10:00
End: Dec 08 2025 13:00
Agenda
- 10.00 - Software installations
- How to install software correctly on Olivia
- Recommended patterns and tools (modules/containers/etc.)
- How to avoid small-file explosions and bad I/O patterns
- 10.45 - Questions and a short break
- 11.00 - Hardware and storage changes
- Interconnect overview
- New storage layout
- Staging concepts and workflow
- Local scratch and differences from CPU systems
- 11.45 - Questions and a short break
- 12.00 - AI/GPU usage
- Running PyTorch efficiently on Olivia
- Basic scaling across multiple GPUs and nodes
- 12.45 - Questions and answers
- 13.00 - End of webinar