Introduction to the CSF Course Materials

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Reminder: The main CSF online docs are at: https://ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/csf. We will refer to this site during the course.

Course Notes and Practicals

• Intro to HPC using the CSF - Session 1 (course slides PDF)
• Intro to HPC using the CSF - Session 2 (course slides PDF)
• Intro to HPC using the CSF - Session 1 (course slides PDF - 4 slides per page)
• Intro to HPC using the CSF - Session 2 (course slides PDF - 4 slides per page)
• Practical Session 1 (PDF)
• Practical Session 2 (PDF)
• Practical Session 3 (PDF)
• Practical Session 4 (PDF)
• Practical Session 5 (PDF)

MacOS XQuartz must be installed before logging in to the CSF (using ssh on a Mac.) Please reboot your Mac after installing it. Please install the most recent version.

• XQuartz-2.8.5.pkg (right-click, save link as ...)
• XQuartz-2.8.1.dmg (right-click, save link as ...)
• XQuartz-2.7.11.dmg (right-click, save link as ...)

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Outside of the Course

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Other Useful Links

• CSF3 online documentation
• Intro to CSF course booking page
• Research IT Course Catalogue (on StaffNet)

• University of Bristol's Intro to Unix online docs
• Intro to Parallel Computing - Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory