Startup Guides

Here you can find references to guides for a quick, straightforward and typically hands-on introduction to topics related to the usage of HPC infrastructure.

HPC Wiki

A good introduction to important terms and techniques as well as first steps for the operational usage of HPC infrastructure (e.g. make, cmake, ssh, compiler, modules, vim, screen/tmux, python/pip, scp, rsync, git, shell, sh-file, NUMA) can be found at:

HPC-Wiki

The wiki is built up continuously within the HPC.NRW project.

Common HPC Software

Here you can find some starter manuals for common HPC/A software:

AMBER (Manual by the HHU Düsseldorf)
Gaussian (Manual by the HHU Düsseldorf)
LAMMPS (Manual by the HHU Düsseldorf)
TurboMole (Manual by the HHU Düsseldorf)

Programming, Analyses and Visualization (Plotting)

C:

W3Schools Online Tutorial

C++:

Modern C++ Video Course (2020) (via the pages of the StachnissLab at the Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation)
Modern C++ Video Course (2018) by Igor Bogoslavskyi (via the pages of the StachnissLab at the Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation)
CPlusPlus.com Online Tutorial

Python:

Programming with Python (Software Carpentry)
Plotting and Programming with Python (Software Carpentry)
Python Introduction (via the pages of the StachnissLab at the Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation)

Java:

Java Tutorials by Sun.

R:

Programming with R (Software Carpentry)
R for reproducible scientific data analysis (Software Carpentry)

Unix / Linux / Shell

Unix Editors:

vim
vi, vim oder gvim Cheatsheet (short reference)
emacs

Shells and General Topics:

GNU/Linux Manual (most recent HTML version).
Advanced Linux Programming (Mark Mitchell, Jeffrey Oldham, and Alex Samuel, PDF, 4 MB)
Unix/Linux Shell (Software Carpentry)

Software Development / Version Control

Git:

Git Version Control (Software Carpentry)