Additional Useful Links (GVA14)

Learning Objectives: Day 1, Part 1: Linux/TACC Introduction

• Learn and practice working with TACC systems (Lonestar in particular)

Where you can go from here

• Learn more about Linux, perl, python, and other languages at one of these sites:

  • linux.org (including how to install your own system on your own hardware)

  • The Korf lab's "Unix & Perl Primer for Biologists"

  • A beginners guide, written by M. Stonebank

• Learn more about TACC resources

  • Lonestar (second-oldest supercomputer at TACC with very mature bio-applications) users's guide

  • Ranch (tape backup system) user's guide

  • Stampede (newest supercomputer - faster & bigger than Lonestar, but not as mature) user's guide

  • Corral (1.2 PB replicated disk storage system) user's guide

  • idev - the unique way to access a compute node interactively