Linux Command Line and Bash Shell Scripting for the Use on High Performance Compute Clusters

The bwHPC project[1] of the state Baden-Württemberg offers access to High Performance Computing resources to its universities, of which the kiz operates the research compute-cluster "Justus"[2].

This introductory course will explain software tools in use on these compute clusters on

April 3th  2018 9:00-12:00

Universität Ulm

room to be announced to participiants. 

After the course, you should be able to:

  • use the Linux system documentation (man, info, help)
  • cope with special characters in filenames (quoting)
  • set shell variables and use them
  • copy, read and write files and be able to find them using some search criteria
  • find the ID of specific  running programs and kill them
  • write simple for-loops in bash
  • extract lines from a file using keywords and plot numerical values from those lines

Members of Ulm University can learn most of the needed shell basics via online course material on lynda.com[3], which covers a similar range of topics. 

[1] www.bwhpc.de 

[2] https://www.uni-ulm.de/?justus 

[3] 1,2 and 3 from  https://www.lynda.com/Linux-tutorials/Learn-Linux-Command-Line-Basics/435539-2.html?org=uni-ulm.de  
     1,2 and 3 from https://www.lynda.com/Linux-tutorials/Linux-Shells-Processes/554398-2.html?org=uni-ulm.de

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