Basic Linux & Cluster Courses - March 2019

Internal Training: Basic Linux

Teacher: Rodny Hernandez (SIT)
Date: Monday 18th March 2019
Hour: 10:00-13:00h
Location: CRG Training Center

This course is suitable for beginners and explains the basics of GNU/Linux commands and scripts creation. In particular it encompasses the following key concepts:

• Introduction (Linux OS and distributions)
• User accounts
• Secure shell (access to remote servers)
• Man pagesWorking with files and directories (Linux file tree)
• Basic Linux commands: (ls, cp, mkdir, rm, mv, find, man, grep, cut, sort...)
• Files permissions (groups, files, chown, chmod)
• Pipes and redirections
• Editor (gedit) Script creation (conditional structures, loops)

Internal Training: CRG Cluster

Teacher: Luis Exposito (SIT)
Date: Monday 25th March 2019
Hour: 10:00-13:00h
Location: CRG Training Center

The course it's an introduction to the CRG's computing cluster usage and encompass the following key concepts:

• Univa Grid Engine Introduction
• Cluster concepts (jobs, queues, nodes, slots, memory)
• Cluster information (qstat, qhost)
• Submitting jobs to the cluster (qsub CLI)
• Managing submitted jobs (qstat, qhold, qdel)
• Submit script requesting basic parameters (memory, number of slots)
• Intermediate data and output management (-e, -o and scratch usage for improving jobs performance)
• Job arrays

For these two courses:

Maximum nº students:  19
Registration deadline:  12th March 2019