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Getting Started

This set of tutorials is designed to help you get started on the system. More in depth tutorials are available on other parts of the site, but these should help you get started quickly.

Prerequisites

For Faculty (Principal Investigators)

If you are new to Betty, please visit see our Faculty Info page. There you will find information about our code of conduct and requesting resources on Betty.

For Researchers

Your Principal Investigator (PI) must add you to the appropriate project(s) in ColdFront. Once this is complete, see below for instructions to get you started with access to Betty. It may take up to an hour for new accounts and project memberships to take effect.

If you are not a Penn faculty member, student, or staff member your PI will need to reach out to the Local Support Provider (LSP) for their home school to request a Guest PennKey for you before they can add you to a project.

First starting out on PARCC, you will want to get logged in and get familiar with the layout

  • Logging-In : Get your laptop configured to log into the system
  • Looking around : Start looking around after your first login

Once you have successfully logged in you have a couple of options based on your area of research

  • Zero to MNIST : This tutorial will guide you through getting started on your very first ML training on PARCC
  • Zero to MPI : This tutorial will guide you through some MPI basics

Next steps

Look into some of our more in depth tutorials! You should see a listing on the left hand side of your screen.