It went well.. Before the class started we asked for a head count on who had used Linux and the command line. A couple of nervous hands were half-raised; keep in mind these were science postgraduate students.
By the end of the class they had logged in, copied a file from the desktop to the cluster, edited it on the cluster, copied it back, created a directory, moved the file, used find to locate the file, grep to search it and then delete the directory. Then they loaded a module, submitted a job and - with x-forwarding - viewed the graphic results on their desktop machines.
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It went well.. Before the class started we asked for a head count on who had used Linux and the command line. A couple of nervous hands were half-raised; keep in mind these were science postgraduate students.
By the end of the class they had logged in, copied a file from the desktop to the cluster, edited it on the cluster, copied it back, created a directory, moved the file, used find to locate the file, grep to search it and then delete the directory. Then they loaded a module, submitted a job and - with x-forwarding - viewed the graphic results on their desktop machines.
A good result for their first exposure!