This course is a series of short live-demo sessions interwoven with hands-on exercises. The goal is to give you the skills required to use Canada's research High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources.
Specifics topics that will be covered (time allowing) are:
- finding information on Canadian supercomputers
- getting an account
- transferring files
- starting a command-line session
- moving around and looking at things
- accessing software
- scheduling programs to run
- reading and writing files
- using wildcards and pipes
- automating tasks with loops
- writing scripts (collections of commands)
- searching for things
- writing and using regular expressions
Unlike a graphical user-interface, the command line is well suited for automation, so these skills are also useful outside of HPC.
- Teacher: Paul Preney
- Teacher: Tyson Whitehead
Access is restricted to Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada) authenticated users only: No