Summary and Setup
This lesson introduces environmental sustainability principles in the context of high performance computing systems.
We use the UK National Supercomputing Service, ARCHER2 as an example throughout this lesson but the principles and learning should be applicable to any HPC system.
Prerequisites
- You should have basic familiarity with using a command shell, and
the lesson text will at times request that you “open a shell window”,
with an assumption that you know what this means.
- Under Linux or macOS it is assumed that you will access a
bashshell (usually the default), using your Terminal application. - Under Windows, Powershell and Git Bash should allow you to use the
Unix instructions. We will also try to give command variants for Windows
cmd.exe.
- Under Linux or macOS it is assumed that you will access a
- The lessons will sometimes request that you use a text editor to
create or edit files in particular directories. It is assumed that you
either have an editor that you know how to use that runs within the
working directory of your shell window (e.g.
nano), or that if you use a graphical editor, that you can use it to read and write files into the working directory of your shell.
Target audience
This lesson is aimed at researchers and research software engineers (RSEs) who use HPC systems. No knowledge of environmental sustainability principles is assumed.
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