Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

Tutorials

VPAC provides a range of practical guides leading VPAC users through key features and functions of various software applications installed on VPAC’s High Performance Computers.

The latest version of our training manual is available as a PDF file.

The following tutorials will assist VPAC HPC users with running jobs and applications:

Basic Tutorials

• Logging on and Transfering Files for Windows users.
• Logging On and Transferring Files for Linux and Mac users.
• Linux Commands and File Structure
• Editing Files: nano, vim and emacs
• Module Commands
• Submitting and Running HPC Jobs
• Submitting and Running NAMD GPU Jobs
• Acquiring and Using Licenses
• X11 Windows Forwarding

Application Tutorials

• Abaqus
• ANSYS/CFX
• Compiling MPI Applications
• Gaussian
• Hadoop On Demand
• Matlab DCS
• NAMD
• OpenFOAM

Contact Us

For further information regarding any of our tutorials, please contact help@vpac.org or phone +61 3 9925 4410.