Purdue University

The Clusters 201 workshop is for students, staff, and faculty familiar with Linux, but wanting to learn how to use Purdue's Research Computing clusters.

Schedule: The Events page will show the next scheduled session.

Prerequisites:

• Basic Linux/Unix command-line knowledge is required.
• Unix 101 and Clusters 101 are recommended but not required.
• Software Carpentry - Unix Shell would be a good substitute for Unix 101/201.

Topics:

• Cluster front-ends vs. compute nodes
• How to submit a batch job
• Components of a job script
• Useful command line tools
• Interactive jobs