Practical introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)

Course Materials repository.

Contributing

The materials are written in markdown. Files are numbered according to their order in the materials sections. Some materials are "extra" and are prefixed with number "99-".

The repository is compiled using the {rmarkdown} R package. From the command line, this would create the html files:

Rscript -e "rmarkdown::render_site()"

The html files are built into the docs folder, from which the GitHub pages are built.

The _site.yml file can be edited to configure the pages that appear on the rendered site. This is necessary if a new file is created and we want to add a new page for it.

Text Boxes

We use some boxes to highlight content, and these can be inserted with the following markdown syntax:

:::note
content here
:::

We have 4 types of boxes available:

• :::note creates an "information" box for side notes, tips and tricks, etc.
• :::highlight creates a box to highlight things like learning objectives or key points
• :::exercise creates a box for exercises
• :::warning creates a box for warnings

Exercises

To create a new exercise, we use the CSS box :::exercise together with an HTML element to hide the answer. Here is an example:

:::exercise

Ask the question here

<details><summary>Answer</summary>

Answer goes here. 

</details>
:::