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Training

Name URL Description What is it useful for?
Ansys CLI Start-up Instructions https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/public//Views/Secured/corp/v251/en/flu_ug/flu_ug_startramp.html#flu_ug_sec_startup_option Getting started with Ansys on HPC
Ansys TUI Commands https://cfdland.com/ansys-fluent-tui-commands-most-used-console-commands-for-cfd-simulation/ Writing a journal file to run Ansys on HPC
The Carpentries https://carpentries.org/lessons/ Carpentries lessons on Unix, Git, Python, HPC, etc. Getting started with various tools for HPC
The Carpentries Incubator https://carpentries.org/lesson-development/community-lessons/ Wide variety of Carpentries Style lessons Lessons created by the community which are not yet accepted into the core curriculum. Many (but not all) are well maintained. Check life cycle state (pre-alpha | alpha | beta | stable)
Linux Survival https://linuxsurvival.com/ Linux tutorial Learning Linux is critical for effectively using HPC
Bandit https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ Game-based training More Linux learning
Vim Adventures https://vim-adventures.com/ Vim learning game Vim is an implementation of vi, the default text editor included in almost any linux distribution. Know the basics and you can edit text files like scripts and config files in any linux machine or container
W3 Schools https://www.w3schools.com/ Training resources for many languages and tech Learning most languages
HPC Wiki https://hpc-wiki.info/hpc/HPC_Wiki
https://hpc-wiki.info/hpc/Category:Tutorials
https://hpc-wiki.info/hpc/Scheduling_Basics 		Open Wiki and Tutorials originally created by the ProPE project Overview of the basics of HPC, tutorials and understanding the scheduler. aims to be a site-independent HPC documentation, created in ProPE project funded until 2020 by the German Science foundation (DFG)

HPC Documentation

Our HPC Portal allows you to plan, monitor and manage your HPC projects and this wonderful wiki has lots of information specific to Comet but there is a wealth of information in documentation for other HPC systems that can be very helpful if you're working on Comet.

Name URL Description What is it useful for?
Sheffield HPC Parallel Computing https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/parallel/index.html#understanding-parallelisation-paradigms HPC Wiki Explaining the differences between parallel processing paradigms
Sheffield RSE line_profiler guide https://rse.shef.ac.uk/pando-python/profiling-lines.html RSE Wiki How to identify the main compute bottlenecks in your Python script

Meetings and Conferences

Name URL Description What is it useful for?
RSECon https://rsecon26.society-rse.org/ Research Software Engineering Conference Annual conference of the RSE Society
Durham HPC Days https://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/programme-days-2026/
https://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/recordings/ 		Annual event at Durham University and online The Durham HPC Days bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to explore the frontiers of high-performance computing, data analysis, and scientific innovation.
CAKE https://www.cake.ac.uk/ Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange Runs events and funds knowledge exchange. The CAKE NetworkPlus facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities.

Software and IDEs

Name URL Description What is it useful for?
scikit-image


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 Python image analysis module Performing image analysis
Rames-code


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 C based Astrophysical simulation suite Simulate 2D, 3D star formation data and other astrophysical phenomena
PLINK


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 Genetic association analysis software Performing genetic association analysis
Orca https://www.faccts.de/orca/ Atomic Scale Modelling Suite Performs DFT and molecular dynamics calculations. Generates various spectra of molecules.
image.sc https://forum.image.sc/ Forum for image analysis advice Very helpful community of people
pyclesperanto https://github.com/clEsperanto/pyclesperanto GPU accelerated python image analysis module GPU accelerated python image analysis module
Rames-code Intro Documentation https://displ.nl/pb/Ramses-documentation-new.html Personal Documentation of starting out with Rames-code Examples of well studied calculations like Sedov-Taylor 2D, 3D models.
Orca Intro Geometry Documentation https://displ.nl/pb/DFT-Documentation.html Documentation of Geometry Optimization based on ORCA A introduction on atomic scale calculation with multiple computational chemistry packages interlaced.
documentation on different IDEs https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/getting-started.html


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 Documentation of different IDEs for working would help alot. Pycharm given as alternative but this is primarily for Python. Similary Rstudio for R. A lot of work is usually cross language though so swapping IDEs between languages isn't ideal and unsure if work arounds e.g. rpy2 to run R within python will work well in pycharm. Some popular packages e.g. pertpy/milopy is a python package which runs R models during pipeline workflow Working day-to-day

How to get the best out of Comet HPC

Name URL Description What is it useful for?
How Slurm decides to schedule jobs https://help.sdstate.edu/TDClient/2744/Portal/KB/Article/164501/Slurm-Scheduling-Why-Is-My-Job-Not-Starting


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 some info specific to SDSU HPC but mostly general truths about how slurm makes decisions

WE NEED: Working on IDE throughout the day for navigating files, git syncing, rdw+comet syncing, code writing before launching high mem job. Lots of 1 hour jobs not practical but 1 job for long time is stuck in queue despite very little memory request 		Getting your jobs to run as soon as possible, QOL, day-day working
Mounting drives like RDW when not on compus


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 Documentation shows only for windows on newcastle server so for this and other tools/documentation, how to do it not on newcastle wifi would help a lot Setup

Working with AI

Name URL Description What is it useful for?
AI usage with loop engineering


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 Documentation of what can/can't be done on hpc with AI and how to use best for token minimal usage would help. e.g. is ollama for local models okay to use so llm models can be used and stored on comet? Working day-to-day

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