Tutorials
HPC@LSU invites you to attend our weekly training scheduled every Wednesdays, except university holidays. All training sessions are from 9:00AM to 11:00AM at 307 Frey Computing Services Center. The sessions will be available on WebEx for remote participants and will be recorded for later review.
The training sessions are subject to cancellation due to lack of registrations, so please register if you plan on attending. Registration closes in the afternoon on the day prior to the training.
Click on the tutorial topic to obtain more information and registration details. WebEx remote connect links to attend the training will be provided via email to all registered participants.
Note: The Slide and Support Materials links are placeholders until content is added after the tutorial.
Summer 2019 Training Schedule
1. June 26,2019: HPC User Environment 2
| Topic | HPC User Environment 2 |
| Date | June 26,2019 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | This training provides an overview of the HPC hardware and software environment, queuing system, compiling programs, writing submit scripts, running and monitoring jobs on HPC systems. Prerequisites
Slides Downloads |
| Registration | Click Here |
2. July 10,2019: Basic Shell Scripting
| Topic | Basic Shell Scripting |
| Date | July 10,2019 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | 307 Frey |
| Description | For anyone who works in a Linux/Unix environment, a working knowledge of shell scripting is essential and will boost their efficiency and productivity tremendously. For this tutorial, we will focus on bash as it is one of the most popular shells. This tutorial will include topics such as creating simple bash scripts, flow control, command line arguments, regex, grep, awk and sed. This is a practical tutorial, so we will provide examples and/or hands-on exercises for most of the covered materials.
Prerequisites
Slides Downloads |
| Registration | Click Here |
2019 XSEDE Training Schedule
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Virtual Images
For benefit of Training particpants who do not have ready access to a Linux machine, we have created a virtual image of CentOS 6.3. You can use this image in lieu of a LONI or LSU HPC account for some, but not all of our training courses. More details about this image and installation instructions are provided here
Past Tutorials
We offer many tutorial sessions for our HPC users both on campus and through the access grid to LSU partners. Topics covered vary from:
- Introduction to Linux
- More Linux
- LaTeX
- CVS
- Subversion
- MPI
- OpenMP
- HPC Environment.
To read descriptions or access PDF's of the slides from past tutorials Past Tutorials.