NOTE: Our clusters use the UNIX operating system modified to by the ROCKS cluster software as provided by the San Diego Supercomputing Center. While it would be nice to provide our own spin on how to use UNIX, and the power of the UNIX operating system, right now our time is better spent elsewhere. To get the most use of of our clusters, or any other UNIX system you should learn a little bit about how UNIX works, and how to make minimal use of the bash shell. Our recommendation is to invest in books publishd by O'Reilly and Associates. ORA has very good beginner's books. One that seems good is Learning the UNIX Operating System . As you progress in your use of UNIX, you may also want to pick books up on bash, shell scripting, perl scripting, and/or python scripting (as needed).
To use 3rd party software we have added, you will want