Purpose of This Guide

There are a million and one online tutorials, guides and courses for switching to Linux or getting started with Linux. This guide has the specific goal of providing a resource to get users enough knowledge to comfortably use the HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster for research or academic purposes. Typically people are more interested in the projects they are working on than the Operating System they need to use for it, so we are striving to make the usage of our cluster as painless as possible. The guide will be focused on simplifying how to approach commands and how to use them within the cluster. We will include some instructions that you will not have to worry about, but will still be enlightening for some reason or another. For instance, how users and permissions work as well as package managers.