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High Performance & Scientific Computing

Workshops and Trainings



In addition to the documentation and live Zoom office hours, a series of workshops/trainings is also provided for a general overview of the ISAAC computing resources and the use of the ISAAC cluster. The recorded workshop videos are provided below.

Note: all videos are hosted on Panopto and may require a NetID and password in order to view some videos.



Linux Tutorial for Beginners

Basic Linux commands to quickly start working in the Linux environment of ISAAC clusters
Learn about Linux

Learn about Nano-Text Editor

Linux generic learning reference from MIT


Running batch jobs on ISAAC Legacy

Batch Scripting with SLURM Scheduler on ISAAC Open Legacy Cluster
Learn about ISAAC Legacy


Introduction to ISAAC Open Enclave Resources

Intended to provide new users an overview of the ISAAC Next Gen and Legacy computing facilities.
Learn about ISAAC Next Gen
Learn about ISAAC Legacy


Introduction to ISAAC Secure Enclave Resources

Intended to provide new users an overview of the ISAAC secure enclave computing facilities.
Learn about ISAAC Secure Enclave (For UTK users only)
The users from any UT campus, please click here


GPU computing on ISAAC

Intended to provide user an overview of the GPU resources and the GPU-based computation on ISAAC Next Gen and Legacy.

Learn about GPU computing on ISAAC Next Gen
Learn about GPU computing on ISAAC Legacy


Running Jobs with SLURM on ISAAC Next Gen

Introduction of the common Slurm scheduler directives and approaches used for efficiently running your computational jobs on ISAAC Next Gen cluster.
Learn how to run jobs with SLURM on ISAAC NextGen


Web browser-based Access to ISAAC with Open OnDemand

Introduction to the use of Open OnDemand for managing files and running applications with graphical user interfaces (GUI) on ISAAC, with focus on MATLAB, Jupyter, and RStudio.
Learn how to use Open OnDemand with ISAAC Next Gen
Learn how to use Open OnDemand with ISAAC Legacy