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Connecting to an HPC
Account management
- environment ( modules )
- account usage, project participants, quotas
Programming environment
- traditional HPC languages (scale well, high efficiency): c and fortran
- python, machine-learning
- commercial software
Data Transfer with an HPC
- globus online
- ssh/scp/rdist
Thinking about your workflow end to end
- optimize performance
  - on the HPC
    - performance profiling
  - interacting with the HPC
    - data transfer bottlenecks (last mile )
      - WiFi
      - USB-N with N < 3 ?
    - on a campus lan
      - gigabit ethernet ( show bandwidth and latency from a test )
    - on a "foreign" lan (home, coffee shop, another continent...)
      - vpn ?
        
        performance vs security
- debugging codes and issues that arise
  - your code ?
  - system problem ?
  - Debugging on Blue Waters