Full course description
Term: Fall 2025
Date: October 10th, 2025
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Online Only
Instructor: Ayat Mohammed
Presented By: Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
Description:
Prerequisites:
You will need an ARC account to follow along and set up these tools.
Access to a VT network (e.g., on campus or connected to VPN)
This workshop is designed for Virginia Tech faculty, researchers, and students who are new to Advanced Research Computing (ARC) resources. Participants will be introduced to the user-facing components of ARC systems, including an overview of the Open OnDemand web portal and methods for connecting via command-line tools. Through guided demonstrations, attendees will learn common usage patterns for ARC’s high-performance computing environment, including interacting with the job scheduler using commands such as srun, sbatch, and salloc. The session will also cover accounting, job queues, limits, software modules, quality of service (QoS) options, constraints, task binding, and billing. Attendees with ARC accounts will have the opportunity to follow along in building and submitting a sample batch job, gaining practical experience in efficiently utilizing ARC resources.