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  • Tier-1 Infrastructure
    • Hortense @ HPC-UGent
    • Archive of Tier-1 Clusters
      • Breniac infrastructure
        • Memory bandwith and latency measurements Tier-1
  • Tier-2 Infrastructure
    • UAntwerp Tier-2 Clusters
      • Vaughan hardware
      • Leibniz hardware
      • Breniac hardware
      • UAntwerp storage
      • Site-specific Slurm info
      • Remote visualization @ UAntwerp
    • VUB Tier-2 Clusters
      • Hydra Cluster
      • Anansi Cluster
      • VUB storage
      • VUB-specific documentation
    • HPC-UGent Tier-2 Clusters
    • KU Leuven/UHasselt Tier-2 Clusters
      • Tier-2 access
      • Tier-2 Genius
        • Genius hardware
        • Genius quick start guide
      • Tier-2 wICE
        • wICE hardware
        • wICE quick start guide
        • wICE advanced guide
      • Tier-2 Superdome
        • Superdome hardware
        • Superdome quick start guide
      • Tier-2 Storage
        • KU Leuven storage
        • Restoring a snapshot
      • Site-specific Slurm info
    • Archive of Tier-2 Clusters
      • Thinking Cluster
      • Genius cluster
      • UAntwerp Hopper hardware
  • Access: Terminal Interface
    • Terminal Interface on Windows
      • Terminal using PuTTY
        • SSH proxy with PuTTY
        • SSH tunnel with PuTTY
      • Terminal using MobaXterm
      • Installing WSL2 on windows
    • Terminal Interface on macOS
      • Remote Terminal on macOS
    • Terminal Interface on Linux
      • Remote Terminal with OpenSSH
        • OpenSSH Configuration
        • SSH proxy with OpenSSH
        • SSH tunnel using OpenSSH
    • Basic Linux usage
    • Introduction to Linux Shell Scripts
    • Xming X Server
    • NoMachine NX
    • Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  • Access: Web Portal
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  • Scientific Software
    • Using software on the HPC
      • Module system
      • Toolchains
      • EESSI
      • Containers on the HPC systems
      • Instructions for specific applications
        • MATLAB getting started
        • MATLAB parallel computing
        • R command line arguments in scripts
        • R integrating C functions
        • Paraview remote visualization
    • Installing your own software
      • Conda
      • Language custom environments
      • Manual compilation of software
      • Building Containers on the HPC
      • EasyBuild
      • Spack
    • Software development
      • MPI distributed programming
      • OpenMP for shared memory programming
      • Hybrid MPI/OpenMP programs
      • Books about Parallel Computing
      • Toolchains
      • FOSS toolchain
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      • Intel Trace Analyzer & Collector
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        • Eclipse introduction and installation
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        • Eclipse with PTP and version control
        • Specific Eclipse issues on OS X
      • MS Visual Studio
      • ParameterWeaver
      • Version control systems
        • Subversion
        • TortoiseSVN
        • Git
      • BLAS and LAPACK
      • Perl package management
      • Python package management
      • R package management
      • Installing R packages with devtools
  • Job Scheduler
    • Running jobs in Slurm
      • Submission of job scripts: sbatch
      • Managing and monitoring jobs
      • Example job types
      • Job scripts: Advanced topics
      • Job Credits
        • Credits to use KU Leuven infrastructure
        • Slurm Accounting
      • Main differences between Slurm and Torque
    • Running jobs in Torque
      • Job resources
      • Job names, output files and notifications
      • Starting programs
      • Submitting and monitoring your jobs
      • Monitoring memory and CPU usage of programs
      • worker quick start
      • Checkpointing framework
  • Compute
  • Scientific Software
  • Installing your own software

Installing your own software#

  • Conda
  • Language custom environments
    • Python virtual environments
    • R libraries
    • Julia projects
    • Cargo packages in Rust
  • Manual compilation of software
  • Building Containers on the HPC
    • How can I create a Apptainer image?
    • Apptainer definition files
  • EasyBuild
  • Spack
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