This course is for staff and PGRs from the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester only.
This course is aimed at researchers wanting a brief introduction to the University's Interactive Computational Shared Facility (iCSF) a.k.a incline, and the Computational Shared Facility. This includes:

• New users who may not have used the system yet (or done very much with it)

• Existing users who want to refresh their memory of the system

• Researchers who do not have an account on the system but want to know more about it and try it out

Although this course is aimed at new users of the iCSF and CSF the knowledge gained will be useful to anyone wanting a general introduction to HPC / HTC on Linux based systems.

• Overview of CIR ecosystem at UoM

• Introduction to the iCSF & CSF

• Research Data Storage (RDS) & CIR Filesystems

• Research Virtual Desktop Service

• Using the iCSF (incline)

• Using the CSF

• Other Research IT Infrastructure Provided Services