Tutorials
HPC@LSU invites you to attend our weekly training scheduled every Wednesdays, except university holidays.
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 2025 Training Schedule
1. January 22,2025: Introduction to Linux
| Topic | Introduction to Linux |
| Date | January 22,2025 |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Place | Zoom Online |
| Description | This tutorial provides beginner and intermediate users with basic Linux/Unix command line environment experience. Topics covered in this class include navigating through the system, useful commands, editors (vi and emacs) and basic shell scripting. If you have no previous experience with shell scripting and using editors such as emacs and vi, this course is a prerequisite for the tutorials on User Environment and Shell Scripting.
Prerequisites
Slides |
| Registration | Click here |
2. January 29,2025: HPC User Environment 1
| Topic | HPC User Environment 1 |
| Date | January 29,2025 |
| 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
Slides |
| Registration | Click here |
3. February 5,2025: HPC User Environment 2
| Topic | HPC User Environment 2 |
| Date | February 5,2025 |
| 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
Slides Downloads |
| Registration | Click here |
4. February 12,2025: Basic Shell Scripting
| Topic | Basic Shell Scripting |
| Date | February 12,2025 |
| 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
Slides Downloads |
| Registration | Click here |
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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.