Setting up Aliases in linux and unix makes life a lot easier. You can choose your own commands and shortcuts to commands you commonly use a lot and save time. Another way to make life easier is to set up SSH keys so you won’t be asked for a password everytime you login to the server.

HiPerGator works on Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) scheduler for scheduling scripts for computation. But let’s break down the sample bash script line by line , which you can download here

The tutorial available on UFRC website does a pretty good job explaining how to load a software for running jobs on the cluster.
Click here for Module Tutorial by UFRC After you have loaded the list of modules you want to load, you can save the modules to a default list by,

Navigating your way through the cluster is helpful if you learn basic bash scripting.

If this is your first time using the cluster, I would advice to learn some basic bash scripting. Navigating your way through different directories and cluster would be a lot easier with basic bash commands such as pwd,cd, mkdir, ls. Please check the bash scripting tutorials here