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New User Tutorial

Welcome to the ARL DSRC! This New User Tutorial is designed to help users new to the center learn how to efficiently compute at our site. Please take an hour or two to carefully take this tutorial, which we have assembled for your sake. We feel that time invested up front in learning the best techniques for computing at ARL will save you time and effort in the long run. We want your computing here to be successful, and we strongly feel that taking this tutorial will help you learn how to use our systems to your advantage.

Users unfamiliar with HPC should review all slides contained herein.

Users familiar with HPC at other DSRCs may wish to skip the Computational Technology Areas section, and browse the other sections.

All users are strongly encouraged to do the hands-on exercises provided in this tutorial. For this tutorial, please refer to complete hostname information that you were provided with your new user documentation.

If you need help at any time, feel free to contact the CCAC.

  1. ARL DSRC Systems
  2. How To Login
    1. Kerberos
      1. Kerberos
      2. Kerberos On Windows
      3. Kerberos On UNIX
      4. Kerberos Exercise
    2. CygWin
      1. CygWin Info
      2. CygWin Exercise
    3. Exceed
      1. Exceed Info
      2. Exceed Exercise
    4. UNIX / Linux Direct
      1. UNIX Info
      2. UNIX Exercise
  3. SSH Initialization
  4. File Systems
    1. File System Introduction
    2. File System Diagram
    3. File System Chart
    4. File System Exercise
  5. Software
    1. COTS
      1. COTS Software List
      2. COTS Software Path Information
      3. COTS Software Policies
    2. Modules
      1. Information On Modules
      2. Modules Exercise
  6. Compiling
    1. Compilers
    2. Compiler Exercise
  7. Queuing Systems
    1. Why Have Queuing Systems?
    2. Job Priority
    3. Queuing Systems
  8. Job scripts
    1. Basics Of A Job Script
    2. Steps Of A Job Script
    3. Job Script and Queuing
    4. Running MPI Jobs
  9. Queuing Systems Details
    1. PBS Queuing System And Commands
    2. PBS Environment Variables
    3. PBS qsub Options
    4. PBS Resource Requests
  10. Hands-On Exercise
  11. Computational Technology Areas
  12. More Info and Reporting Problems
    1. ARL DSRC Website