Introduction to Unix and Grid Engine for beginners

This is a guide on using Unix-like systems and the Grid Engine cluster environment.

The first chapter will introduce basic usage for Unix-like systems. The second chapter will explore the Grid Engine environment and show how to use the queuing system from users perspective.

What will you get out of this ?

After reading, you will:

• be able to use the command line interface to navigate the file system
• use the command line to interrogate files
• understand and write basic shell scripts
• understand Grid Engine and queueing system
• be able to submit jobs to a Grid Engine cluster and troubleshoot

Contribute to the development

You can contribute to the development of this guide using GitHub features such as pull-requests and issue creation.

Build the book

This book is compiled with pandoc.

Run guix environment -m manifest.scm to enter a suitable environment to hack on this book. Then run npm ci to install the lunr JavaScript library for the search index.

How to update the book website

The book and its website are automatically updated on a successful push to the master branch.

Acknowledgements

Initially created by Altuna Akalin. Some of the material is based on Martin Siegert's documentation of the Grid Engine cluster.