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Author: psteinb

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 # Learning Outline 
 
-## Content
+## Paradigms of Parallel Computing
 
-The workshop is divided into the following three sections:
-
-### The Unix Shell
-
-The aim of this section is to teach learners basic unix commands in order to help them interact with a HPC infrastructure. This may entail:
-
-- filesystem navigation and manipulation
-- difference command line and bash scripts
-- remote sessions with `ssh`
-
-
-### Clusters and Distributed Computing Infrastructure
-
-This section is meant to convey a simplistic mental model of the cluster,
-and how tasks get submitted, assigned and executed on the cluster.
-
-Towards the end of the section, learners will submit a (number of) "Hello World" style batch job(s) that are aligned to the Unix Shell section above.
-
-The session concludes by introducing and practising `environment modules` based on the observation that software on HPC and for HPC systems is very diverse and subject to change. 
-
-### Paradigms of Parallel Computing
-
-This section will guide learners through the process of
-performing a large HPC simulation (code available),
+This material will guide learners through the process of
+performing a HPC simulation (code available),
 and a high-throughput analysis (code available) of related data. The end goal will be to compare the simulation to the data (i.e. to relate their actions on a HPC installation to the scientific method).
 
 For this, they will develop the workflow for a specific research scenario,
 for example:
 
 > Lola was hired by a research lab to help prepare the purchase of a multi-million dollar experiment.
-The experiment is known to fail at temperatures that are too low or too high.
-She knows that the temperature changes follow a daily pattern,
-and she's written some code to simulate these temperature changes.
-After running this code and generating the temperature predictions,
-she determines how closely her predictions match the actual temperature readings
-she has for every day in the last year.
-The simuation would take too long to run
-and generate too much data for her lab workstation,
-so she will use the local University's HPC facility for this work.
+> The experiment is known to fail at temperatures that are too low or too high.
+> She knows that the temperature changes follow a daily pattern,
+> and she's written some code to simulate these temperature changes.
+> After running this code and generating the temperature predictions,
+> she determines how closely her predictions match the actual temperature readings
+> she has for every day in the last year.
+> The simuation would take too long to run
+> and generate too much data for her lab workstation,
+> so she will use the local University's HPC facility for this work.