================= GETTING STARTED ================= The first step is to get a username on our database and a password to enter our HPC clusters. The second step is to have some knowledge of Linux OS. If you need some information on how to work in a Linux environment you may check the `Ubuntu Help `_ or a `UNIX Tutorial `_. Please contact the CFDHub contact person of your research group to register to CFDHub. The contact person will give you the instructions to get a CFDHub access. In the table below you find the list of groups of CFDHub, you may find your contact person. .. _ContactPerson: +------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | CFDHub User Group | Contact Person | +==============================+=============================+ | energia | To be defined | +------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | energia 2 | To be defined | +------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | energia 3 | To be defined | +------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | chimica | To be defined | +------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | | Massimo Fossati | | meccanica +-----------------------------+ | | Paolo Schito | +------------------------------+-----------------------------+ As soon as you receive your ```` and ```` you will be able to access the cluster. For any issue regarding CFDHub, please refer to the contact person of your group. In case, he will contact the CFDHub system administrators. | *Remember:* | **Login credentials are to be considered as strictly personal** | *meaning that NO SHARING between members of the same working group is expected to happen. Every single user entitled with login credentials is to be considered personally responsible for any misuse that should take place.* ------------------------ ADDITIONAL NOTES ------------------------ In the following sections we will often refer to some keywords that are user specific, some of them are given below: - ```` this is your username and you have to substitute it in the command or field; - ```` this is your password and you have to substitute it in the command or field; - ```` this is the port number of your VNC connection; - ```` this is the name of the computing node you would like to use. Vocabulary: - ``alias`` this is the name of the computing node you would like to use; - ``bashrc`` this is a file that contain instructions that are executed each time a terminal is opened or each time you log into a machine through ssh.