First Time on a Supercomputer

The training covers the basic use case for a supercomputer. 

During this training, you will learn many useful Linux commands that will allow you to prepare and run a job on a Supercomputer. You will familiarize yourself with the Linux toolset to make your work on the supercomputer more convenient. The training covers basic Bash scripting.

It does not provide an in-depth description on how to run a job on HPC. That is covered by Running Calculations the HPC way training provided at ACC Cyfronet AGH.

Level

Target audience

Training is intended for people who are familiar with the basics of Linux and haven't used a supercomputer yet. 

Agenda

1. Environmental variables and storage spaces - learning distinct features of the supercomputer; variables, env vars, export, $HOME, $SCRATCH, $USER, $PLG_GROUPS_STORAGE,
2. File permissions - understanding ownership of files; ls -l, chmod,
3. Transferring files to and from the supercomputer - tar, scp
4. Running a job and viewing results - sbatch, find, grep, mc
5. Scripting in bash - for, sleep, date, seq, bc

Requirements

We recommend doing this training after familiarizing with the contents of Absolute Basics of Linux training provided at ACC Cyfronet AGH.

Participants' computers should be equipped with software that allows SSH connections. On Windows, it is recommended to use Windows Terminal (not to be confused with Powershell after checking if OpenSSH is installed (run ssh -V in the terminal). We advise against using Putty.

At 10:00 am on 23rd February 2026, a Dry-run will be held. Participants are invited to come to learn how to log in to Ares supercomputer before the training and resolve any problems with the Training Team

Venue

The workshop will be conducted online on the Zoom platform. The meeting link will be sent to registered participants.

Language

English

Duration

3 hours

Registration

The Registration and the Waiting list close automatically after 17th February 2026. The Registration may close prematurely if the limit number of participants is hit beforehand, but the Waiting List will be available until the deadline above.

Acknowledgements
This event is partially funded by the EuroCC 2 project.

The project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101101903. The JU receives support from the Digital Europe Programme and Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Türkiye.