ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 105.5 Hours of tutorials: 4 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 16.5 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The objective of this subject is to provide students with knowledge of the components of a current infrastructure for high performance computing, how they work together and how to manage them.
The student will be able to design and manage high-performance infrastructures taking into account the analysis of the present needs and their possible future evolution, as well as the requirements to propose an infrastructure design project that will take into account hardware, software and support infrastructures. This will include the computational part, the storage of data, the communications infrastructure and the monitoring of the system.
Support infrastructure for high performance computing
Server virtualization
Communications networks for clusters and storage
Management of clusters for high performance computing
Storage systems and backup copies
Monitoring and optimization of HPC systems
- Sterling, T., Anderson, M., & Brodowicz, M. High performance computing: modern systems and practices. Morgan Kaufmann. 2017.
- R. Rosen. Linux Kernel Networking. Implementation and Theory. 2014
- Tom Shanley. InfiniBand Network Architecture. 2002
- Matthew Portnoy. Virtualization Essentials, 2nd Edition. 2016
- Kailash Jayaswal. Administering Data Centers: Servers, Storage, and Voice over IP. 2005
- Ulf Troppens & Rainer Erkens & Wolfgang Müller. Storage Networks Explained: Basics and Application of Fibre Channel SAN, NAS, iSCSI and InfiniBand. 2004
- E. Nemeth & G. Zinder & T.R. Hein. Linux Administration Handbook. 2006
Complementaria
- Barb Goldworm & Anne Skamarock. Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs. 2007
- W. Curtis Preston. Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems. 2007
- Tom Clark. Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs (2nd Edition). 2003
- Cougias & Heiberger & Koop. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center 3rd Edition. 2003
- Analyze and improve the performance of a given architecture or software
- Know the concepts and basic techniques of high performance computing
- Know the technologies and tools available for computing in distributed systems over a network
Degree competences that are trained (see degree documentation):
- Basic: CG1, CG2, CG3, CG5, CB6, CB7, CB9, CB10.
- Transverse/General: CT1, CT2, CT4.
- Specific: CE2, CE3, CE6
- Study of the notes, books and references on the internet that are available to the student. Practiced skills: CB6, E2, E3, E6.
- Labs to be carried out by the student on his own computer using virtualization technologies.
- Labs, problem solving and practical cases. Practiced skills: CB10, T1, T2, C4.
- Telematics programmed tutorials: guidance for carrying out individual or group work, solving doubts and continuous evaluation activities. Practiced skills: T1.
- Exam. There is no exam in telematic mode
IN CASE OF THAT THE USC DETERMINES THE SHIFT TOWARDS SCENARIO 2 (DISTANCE) OR SCENARIO 3 (CLOSURE OF FACILITIES), THE TEACHING METHODOLOGY WILL BE MODIFIED ACCORDING TO THE CONTINGENCY PLAN INDICATED IN THE SECTION "OBSERVATIONS". </ b >
Labs: 50%
Academically directed assignment: 50%
Second opportunity:
Labs: 50%
Academically directed assignment: 50%
In the case of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the regulations of the Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións will be applied.
In the application of the Normativa da ETSE sobre plaxio (approved by the ETSE Council on 12/19/2019), the total or partial copy of any exercise will mean failure on both opportunities of the course, with a grade of 0.0 in both cases.
IN CASE OF THAT THE USC DETERMINES THE SHIFT TOWARDS SCENARIO 2 (DISTANCE) OR SCENARIO 3 (CLOSURE OF FACILITIES), THE SYSTEM OF EVALUATION WILL BE MODIFIED ACCORDING TO THE CONTINGENCY PLAN INDICATED IN THE SECTION "OBSERVATIONS". </ b >
- Reading didactic material, viewing videos and querying of multimedia material: 0h face-to-face + 22h autonomous work (total 22h)
- Labs: 0h face-to-face + 70h autonomous work (total 70h)
- Academically directed assignments: 0h face-to-face + 58h autonomous work (total 58h)
TOTAL: 0h face-to-face + 150h autonomous work, totaling 150h
Because of the strong interrelationship between the theoretical and the practical part, and because of the progressiveness in the presentation of very related concepts in the theoretical part, it is recommended to devote a daily time of study or review.
In this subject, the intensive use of tools for online communication such as videoconference, email, chat, etc. will be made.
In the non face-to-face evaluation activities, students may be required to apply mechanisms that guarantee their identity as well as their authorship of the elements presented for evaluation purposes.
Contingency plan:
In the event that the health situation advises establishing a Scenario 2 (distance):
1) all the theory classes will be taught online (synchronously by Microsoft Teams, or another tool established in accordance with the coordination of the master at the UDC, or asynchronously through the publication of videos recorded by the teaching staff),
2) the interactive classes will be taught in the same way as the lectures,
3) the evaluation system will remain unchanged
In the event that the health situation advises establishing a Scenario 3 (closure of the facilities):
1) the same conditions as in Scenario 2.