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HPC Prerequisites
91心頭利's HPC clusters run on a mixture of and its derivative , so you will need basic / knowledge to use the university's HPC systems. If you are unfamiliar with the Unix/Linux command-line, please avail yourself of one or more of the following resources:
W&M users also have access to many relevant technical e-books through , including (also available in print), (also available in print), , , and .
Text editors
As part of your command-line proficiency, you will want to be familiar with some kind of "" editor. Every W&M HPC login server has at least vim, nano, and emacs, of which nano is the easiest for a beginner (but ultimately least powerful). Alternatively, some users prefer to do their editing on their desktop or laptop computers (with the or of their choice), and then use a file transfer utility such as FileZilla, PuTTY, WinSCP, Fetch, rsync, or sftp to copy files to and from the clusters.