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  • Tier-1 Infrastructure
    • Hortense @ HPC-UGent
    • Archive of Tier-1 Clusters
      • Archive of KU Leuven/UHasselt Tier-1 clusters
        • BrENIAC
  • Tier-2 Infrastructure
    • UAntwerp Tier-2 Clusters
      • Vaughan hardware
      • Leibniz hardware
      • Breniac hardware
      • UAntwerp storage
      • UAntwerp Accounting
      • UAntwerp-specific Slurm info
      • UAntwerp Software instructions
      • Remote visualization @ UAntwerp
    • VUB Tier-2 Clusters
      • Hydra Cluster
      • Anansi Cluster
      • VUB storage
      • VUB-specific documentation
    • HPC-UGent Tier-2 Clusters
    • KU Leuven/UHasselt Tier-2 clusters
      • Tier-2 access
      • Tier-2 Genius
        • Genius hardware
        • Genius quick start guide
        • Genius decommissioning
      • Tier-2 wICE
        • wICE hardware
        • wICE quick start guide
        • wICE advanced guide
      • Tier-2 Superdome
        • Superdome hardware
        • Superdome quick start guide
      • Tier-2 Storage
        • KU Leuven storage
        • Restoring a snapshot
      • Site-specific Slurm info
      • Tier-2 2025
        • Tier-2 2025 new cluster
    • Archive of Tier-2 clusters
      • Archive of KU Leuven/UHasselt Tier-2 clusters
        • Thinking
        • Genius
      • Archive of UAntwerp Tier-2 clusters
        • Hopper
  • Access: Terminal Interface
    • Terminal Interface on Windows
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      • Terminal using MobaXterm
      • Installing WSL2 on windows
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    • Terminal Interface on Linux
      • Remote Terminal with OpenSSH
        • OpenSSH Configuration
        • SSH proxy with OpenSSH
        • SSH tunnel using OpenSSH
    • Basic Linux usage
    • Introduction to Linux Shell Scripts
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  • Scientific Software
    • Using pre-installed software
      • Module system basics
      • Cluster modules
      • Requesting software
      • Using EESSI
    • Installing software
      • Compiling software
      • EasyBuild and Spack
      • Containers (Apptainer)
      • Conda-based environment managers
      • Python package management
      • R package management
        • vsc-Rproject
        • R packages with devtools
      • Julia package management
      • Perl package management
    • Software development
      • MPI distributed programming
      • OpenMP for shared memory programming
      • Hybrid MPI/OpenMP programs
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      • Intel Trace Analyzer & Collector
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      • MS Visual Studio
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      • BLAS and LAPACK
    • Software-specific guidelines
      • MATLAB (a package by MathWorks)
        • MATLAB getting started
        • MATLAB parallel computing
      • R
        • R command line arguments in scripts
        • R integrating C functions
  • Job Scheduler
    • Running jobs in Slurm
      • Submission of job scripts: sbatch
      • Managing and monitoring jobs
      • Example job types
      • Job scripts: Advanced topics
      • Job Credits
        • Credits to use KU Leuven infrastructure
        • Slurm Accounting
      • Main differences between Slurm and Torque
    • Running jobs in Torque
      • Job resources
      • Job names, output files and notifications
      • Starting programs
      • Submitting and monitoring your jobs
      • Monitoring memory and CPU usage of programs
      • worker quick start
      • Checkpointing framework
  • Compute
  • Scientific Software
  • Installing software

Installing software#

  • Compiling software
  • EasyBuild and Spack
  • Containers (Apptainer)
  • Conda-based environment managers
  • Python package management
  • R package management
  • Julia package management
  • Perl package management
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