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Track 2: End-User Essentials

Audience: L2 (Working Users) | Modules: 5 (11 cumulative) | Prerequisite: Getting Started

For working users who submit jobs regularly. Learn to request the right resources, run interactive sessions, use containers, and follow best practices.

Modules

# Module What You'll Learn
7 Resource Requests --mem, --cpus-per-task, --time, --exclusive, GRES
8 Interactive Jobs srun, salloc, X11 forwarding, Jupyter on compute nodes
9 Environment Modules module load/unload, Lmod, using modules in job scripts
10 Containers on Slurm Singularity/Apptainer, OCI containers, GPU containers
11 Best Practices Resource estimation, efficiency, being a good cluster citizen

After This Track

You can write efficient job scripts, request appropriate resources, and use the cluster effectively. Continue to Power User for advanced workflows.

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