Description:

The lesson aims to answer the following questions:

• What hardware is available on ARCHER2?
  • What does they consist of (login nodes, compute nodes, file systems, backup)?
  • How does this impact me as a user?
• How can I access ARCHER2 interactively and transfer data?
• What does the ARCHER2 application development environment look like and how do I use it?
• How do I write job submission scripts and submit them to the ARCHER2 scheduler?
• How can I be a good ARCHER2 citizen?
• How can I check what resources I am using and look at historical usage?

Target Audience:

This lesson provides an introduction to using ARCHER2 for user who:

• have already used other HPC systems; and
• want to compile (and possibly) develop HPC software on ARCHER2.