Chapter 1. Computing environments

• Motivations and Needs for Scientific Computing
  • Scenario 1
  • Scenario 2
  • Scenario 3
  • A Common Thread
  • Scientific Computation as a Third Scientific Tool
• Items for the Class
  • Hardware (hardly free)
  • Software (mostly free)
  • Others (absolutely free)
• Programming Languages, Platforms, and Operating Systems
  • Scientific languages
  • Computing platforms
  • Scientific computing on Linux/Unix, macOS
• Version Control System – Managing Your Projects
  • Advantages
  • Two Types of Version Control Systems: SVN vs. Git
  • Git for the class, and repository hosting on UCSC-GitLab
• Accessing Network Resources
  • Login via ssh
  • File transfer via scp
  • File transfer via sftp
  • Syncing files via rsync