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Education and Training: Audio Support Notes

 
The document IU's CyberInfrastructure: The Least You Need To Know [PDF] is available as downloadable audio files.

Individual Files (3-14MB, each 3-12 minutes, MP3 format):

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Terminology
  4. IU's Computing Environment
  5. Research computing services
  6. Why use supercomputers?
  7. Data storage and management
  8. Consulting and support
  9. Getting started: Libra
  10. Logging in the first time
  11. Basic interaction with Unix
  12. Files and directories
  13. Common error messages
  14. When Confusing Things Happen
  15. Editing files on supercomputers
  16. Transferring files
  17. Running and compiling programs on Libra
  18. SAS
  19. SPSS
  20. Matlab
  21. Using Research Data Storage
  22. Accesing Research Data Storage
  23. Support for visualization
  24. Getting started with Big Red and Quarry
  25. Technical descriptions: computers
  26. Technical descriptions: data storage and visualization facilities
  27. Final remarks
You can also download the entire collection (174MB, zip format).

Return to Research Computing Education and Training page.

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IU's involvement in the TeraGrid, and the presentation of this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.