Pre-requirements

Goal

The goal of this page to make sure you can follow the course.

These are the things you need to follow the course:

Pre-requirements for Day 1

See the Day 1 prerequisites.

Pre-requirements for Day 2

  • On your HPC cluster, you can:

    • Use a text editor, for example, nano

    • Find a Python module

    • Load a Python module of a specific version

    • Start the Python interpreter

    • Run a Python script

  • In Python, you can:

    • Use the Python interpreter

    • Create and use variables

    • Load a package

    See the material from NAISS ‘Intro to Python’ to see what we require.

  • You have a basic understanding of what an HPC cluster is. To get familiar with HPC clusters see HPC clusters

  • You are not a complete beginner of the Linux environment. To get familiar with the Linux/Bash command line, we recommend the courses and material at Other courses.

Pre-requirements for Day 3

  • All prerequirements of Day 2.

  • You have done the exercise at Use the tarball with exercises.

  • On your HPC cluster, you can:

    • Load a software module for Python packages

    • Submit a batch script to the job scheduler

Pre-requirements for Day 4