BRC Hazel HPC Training

Author

Mery Touceda-Suárez

Published

May 13, 2026

Preface

This handbook accompanies the NC State Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) week-long training workshop on Hazel HPC. It covers everything from HPC fundamentals and job submission to parallel workflows and large-scale data transfer.

Workshop Schedule

Day Topics
Day 1 HPC terminology, getting started on Hazel, running jobs
Day 2 Parallel job arrays
Day 3 GNU Parallel, job performance
Day 4 Globus data transfer

Materials can also be followed in order for self-paced learning outside of the live workshop.

Conventions

Shell commands are shown in code blocks. Commands you type at a prompt begin with $; omit the $ when copying. Expected output appears below without a leading $.

$ echo "hello world!"
hello world!
Important

Never run computationally intensive work on the login nodes. Always submit jobs through the LSF scheduler.

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