Knowledge Checks
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General HPC launch
Which of the following operations I should do from the front-end (login) nodes:
1. Unzip a large file unzip myfile.zip to decompress the file?
2. Small folders and files managment?
3. Heavy data transfers?
4. Run computations?
Avoid running anything from the login node as this will slow down all other users. Create instead an interactive session to do this!
Are the following statements true or false?
5. Is it a good idea to keep data in the scratch folder until the project is finished?
6. I must backup all generated files, inlcuding intermediate files, to make sure the analysis are reproducible.
7. I should not fill up my home folder with data.
8. Virtual environments keeps project-specific software and their dependencies separted - without interferring with each other.
9. I must always run the analysis/pipeline on a small subset of the data to estimate CPU/RAM resources.