Tutorials
All users need to have a basic knowledge of UNIX and a basic but sufficient proficiency with simple commands. Here we provide links to RCIC-authored presentations and links to online tutorials
RCIC presentations
RCIC Overview presentation given during the June 4th, 2021 virtual symposium of UCI’s Research Cyberinfrastructure Center (RCIC) Please see symposium agenda
Introduction to HPC3 December 2020 tutorial covers topics to help users move to HPC3 cluster:
What is HPC3?
Basics of Linux and Shell necessary for running jobs
How to search for modules/programs? What are the differences between modules and programs? How to download modules/programs? How to set environment?
How to run jobs? What queues are available? What are the common problems?
Online tutorials
Basic skills
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education has many topics as separate lectures, including Shell Tools and Scripting, Editors (Vim), Command-line Environment, Data Wrangling, Git, security and much more
The Software Carpentry teaches basic skills via workshops and lessons, here are direct links:
The UNIX Shell - the fundamentals of UNIX Shell all users need to know
File Editors
See the following links for beginners guides, many more are available online:
Programming
Introduction to Python - to learn the basics of Python programming language
Introduction to R - to learn the basics of R programming language
Python Articles - how to Speedup your data science and scientific computing code in Python.
SSH
SSH Academy - learn about SSH passphrases
PAM module DUO-supplied module design/implementation