Video Tutorials

ARC provides a number of video tutorials on our channel on video.vt.edu. In particular, the following sequence walks a user through the fundamentals of ARC usage in less than an hour:

Login

These videos will walk the user through accessing our systems for the first time (and streamlining access for subsequent logins):

• Login with SSH plus Using SSH Keys and Agent to simplify logins, and/or

• Open OnDemand

Accessing Software

The following videos will walk the user through accessing software that ARC has installed or through setting up your own packages:

• Using Modules to Access Scientific Software - EasyBuild (TinkerCliffs/Infer) version, and/or

• Using Modules to Access Scientific Software - Hierarchical (Pre-2020) version, and/or

• Creating Custom Software Modules with EasyBuild, and/or

• Manual Install of Custom Software Modules

Scheduler interaction (job submission)

The following will walk the user through the process of submitting interactive jobs for testing/development and batch jobs for production research runs:

• Interactive and Batch Jobs

Note that these videos require a VT Login to access. Also, each video has a table of contents that can be used to skip between sections; this can be accessed by clicking the “hamburger” (three horizontal bars) button at the top left of the video.