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Intro to Supercomputing on the SGI Altix

 

Course Material:
Last Updated:
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Feb 8, 2006

 

This short course provides an introduction to using the SGI Altix 3700 (cosmos). It covers the following topics:

  • Account application
  • Acceptable use policy
  • Remote access
  • System-related and general news
  • Interactive processing
  • Application environment
  • Disk space usage
  • System architecture
  • Batch processing
  • Compiling and running programs
  • Debugging
  • Profiling
  • Math libraries