Working on the Supercomputer

In this lesson you’ll learn about checkpointing, job scheduling with Slurm, and text processing with grep, sed, and awk.

Study guide

Know what checkpointing is and how to implement internal checkpointing
Understand how job schedulers manage limited resources on a supercomputer
Know how to use Slurm to manage and submit jobs, and know how to use sbatch, salloc, squeue, sacct, and scancel
Know the basics of using grep, sed, and awk, and be able to identify when it’s appropriate to use each; in particular, know awk pretty well
Understand regular expressions and know the most important metacharacters like ., +, ?, *, ^, $, |, and ().