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Tutorials

We currently have an HPC User Service position opening. Graduate students, PostDocs who are seeking job opportunites from STEM majors with a background in computation such as Applied Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or other related computationally intensive disciplines, are strongly encouraged to apply. Please consider applying or forward it to anyone you think would be interested. To apply from workday please use the below links:

LSU Internal Link
External Applicant Link

HPC@LSU invites you to attend our weekly training scheduled every Wednesdays, except university holidays.

Due to concern about the COVID-19 pandemic, all training sessions are pure Zoom online events from 9:00AM to 11:00AM. The sessions will be available only 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. 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.

Spring 2023 Training Schedule

1. January 25,2023: HPC User Environment 1

Topic	HPC User Environment 1
Date	January 25,2023
Time	9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Place	Zoom Online
Description	This training provides an overview of the HPC/LONI general account and allocation policies, general cluster architecture and HPC hardware and software environment. Prerequisites LONI or LSU HPC account Familiarity with Linux/Unix Editors such as vi or emacs SSH client such as Putty for Windows Slides
Registration	Click here

2. February 01,2023: HPC User Environment 2

Topic	HPC User Environment 2
Date	February 01,2023
Time	9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Place	Zoom Online
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 LONI or LSU HPC account Familiarity with Linux/Unix Editors such as vi or emacs SSH client such as MobaXterm for Windows Slides Downloads
Registration	Click here

3. February 08,2023: Basic Shell Scripting

Topic	Basic Shell Scripting
Date	February 08,2023
Time	9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Place	Zoom Online
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 LONI or LSU HPC account Familiarity with Linux/Unix Editors such as vi or emacs SSH client such as Putty for Windows Slides Downloads
Registration	Click here

HPC Training Survey

We value your feedback, and will use your feedback to help improve our HPC training offerings. Please complete a short survey at the end of each training using this link.

Past Tutorials

We offer many tutorial sessions for our users both on campus and online. The training topics include but are not limited to:

Introduction to Linux
HPC user environment
Version control with git
Pythong and R programming
Deep learning basics
Parallel programming

To read descriptions or access PDF's of the slides from past tutorials Past Tutorials.