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I've collected information about tricks that a newbie might not know, but which is useful to help you get around computational work. I'll try to keep adding stuff as I learn it. Please add your tricks too!
Parallel computing
I'm trying to get a better sense about designing parallel scripts. Typically, I've inherited someone's code and I've made it work for me. However, I have been looking for a good basic resource and I've found at least one site that looks promising. They have a few free courses that look relevant like "Parallel computing explained", "Introduction to MPI" and "Intermediate MPI". I found this by looking at an MIT computing course which pointed to this site.
http://www.citutor.org/index.php
Although it's got a lot of basic information, it's hard to figure out how it helps because I'm really not sure what type of clusters I'm actually using (i.e. which parts are relevant to me).
How to find stuff out about computing clusterclusters
I wanted to know whether there was a website where you could just find out about how to run stuff on a computer cluster (i.e. beagle, aces, or coyote). Basically, Scott said that only the sys admin knows all of the specific rules associated with each cluster and if you don't pick their brain about it, you won't really know how to use it right. I will hopefully pick brains for you and put it on this website in another post about each system. That's a work in progress.
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