COMPLECS: Intermediate Linux

Thursday, January 23, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST

This event will be held remotely.

Knowledge of Linux is indispensable for using advanced CI. While GUIs are becoming more prevalent, being able to work at the command line interface (CLI) provides the greatest power and flexibility. In this session, we assume that participants are already comfortable with basic Linux operations such as creating, deleting and renaming files, and navigating between directories. Topics covered include the filesystem hierarchy, file permissions, symbolic and hard links, wildcards and file globbing, finding commands and files, environment variables and modules, configuration files, aliases, and history. 

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COMPLECS (COMPrehensive Learning for end-users to Effectively utilize CyberinfraStructure) is a new SDSC program where training will cover non-programming skills needed to effectively use supercomputers. Topics include parallel computing concepts, Linux tools and bash scripting, security, batch computing, how to get help, data management and interactive computing. Each session offers 1 hour of instruction followed by a 30-minute Q&A. COMPLECS is supported by NSF award 2320934.

Instructor

Robert Sinkovits

Director of Education and Training, SDSC

Dr. Sinkovits leads the education and training efforts at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he has been a computational scientist for more than 25 years. He has collaborated with researchers spanning many fields including physics, chemistry, astronomy, structural biology, finance, ecology, climate, immunology, and the social sciences, always with an emphasis on making the most effective use of high-performance computing resources. Dr. Sinkovits is the PI for the COMPLECS CyberTraining project and co-PI for the Voyager and Expanse supercomputer awards.