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Scientific Computing Summer Workshop 1: Updraft. One very important aspect of scientific computing is high-performance computing - running scientific software on machines with more than one processor (sometimes thousands!). This workshop will provide users with a clear understanding of cluster computing, and will focus specifically on the Updraft computing cluster, located at the University of Utah and administered by the Center for High Performance Computing. This will include a discussion of the hardware, software, policies, and queue system of the Updraft cluster, and an explanation of some important topics like head nodes vs. compute nodes, disk space and disk write speeds, and resources for finding the information you need. In addition, some useful Unix commands will also be covered.