Chapter 1. Operation systems, Version controls, Remote access

• Motivations and Needs for Scientific Computing
  • Scenario 1
  • Scenario 2
  • Scenario 3
  • Scientific computation as a Third Scientific Tool
• Items for the Class
  • Hardware (hardly free)
  • Softwares (mostly free)
  • Others (absolutely free)
• Programming Languages, Platforms, Operating Systems
  • Scientific languages
  • Computing platforms
  • Scientific computing on Linux/Unix, Mac OS X
• Version Control System – Managing Your Projects
  • Advantages
  • Two Types of Version Control Systems: SVN vs. Git
  • Git for the Class using the Git server on SOE servers
• Accessing the Network Resources
  • Login via ssh
  • File transfer via scp
  • File transfer via sftp
  • Syncing files via rsync