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Corning Community College

CSIT1320 HPC Fundamentals

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Project: INT0

Errata

This section will document any updates applied to the project since original release:

Objective

In this project, we get started with some course initialization activities.

Project Overview

Course Homepage

You're reading this, so you've likely already found your way to the course homepage. It consists of the syllabus plus additional course resources.

Please familiarize yourself with it, bookmarking important resources as appropriate, so that you can refer back when needed.

I'd recommend knowing how to get to the projects page (where you found the link for this project), as new content will be posted there.

Syllabus

Be sure to read through and over the syllabus, ensuring there are no questions on the material and organization of the course.

Opus Intro

Familiarize yourself with your Opus, and once there:

NOTE: Week 1 opus entry will be due before Tuesday, the remainder of the intro Opus content will be due by this project's deadline.

Mailing List

Using the resources found on the course homepage (or the lab46 website in general), locate and subscribe a preferred and frequently checked e-mail address to the class mailing list (known as HPC).

We will use this for class discussions (along with irc, the notes wiki page, your Opus, etc.) and to disseminate announcements and other information.

Once subscribed, please send a message to the list introducing yourself (also so I can know to associate a particular e-mail address with you).

Class Chat (IRC)

Using the tutorial, set up a screen session and join the #hpc channel on irc. This has proven useful for more interactive (debugging!) conversations.

Lab46 Shell

Be sure you can still log into Lab46 and access related resources.

Personal/Per-User Lab46 Mercurial Repository

For any pertinent activity, I'd like for you to make regular commits and pushes to your Lab46 mercurial repository (again, where appropriate).

This way, you can have a regular snapshot of your work as you go along, plus have the ability to grab an older copy should something go wrong.

Your Linux Project Desktop

As a first week exercise, I would like you to select, test, install, configure, and eventually use your own desktop Linux system.

I would recommend Debian or Ubuntu, but if you know what you are doing, feel free to use whatever distro you prefer.

Note that our next project will be to build a system from the ground up (Linux From Scratch), so you will need a functional system compatible with those aims.

Submission Criteria

To be successful in this project, the following criteria must be met:

Submit Tool Usage

Let's say you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following (assuming you have a program called hello.c):

lab46:~/src/hpc0/int0$ submit hpc0 int0 hello.c
Submitting hpc0 project "int0":
    -> hello.c(OK) 

SUCCESSFULLY SUBMITTED
lab46:~/src/hpc0/int0$