External Resources

High Performance Computing Infrastructure Beyond Stanford

Campus resources are varied and are growing. They may well meet your needs. But what if you need more compute, need to run larger jobs, need to manipulate more data than local systems can accommodate? The Research Computing team can help link you to national compute resources, such as the OpenScience Grid. Or help you decide whether cloud computing could/should be in your portfolio of computing platforms. Contact us at srcc-support@stanford.edu and let's start the conversation.

Supplemental Training

In addition to providing our own classes and workshops, Stanford Research Computing partners with other Stanford and external organizations to offer a variety of training opportunities around HPC and data technologies, methods, and tools. Some of the areas covered in previous training are CUDA, GPU basics, Python, Introduction to Stanford HPC resources, Introduction to Sherlock, BigData, OpenMP, MPI, and Intel HPC Tools. For more information, contact us at srcc-support@stanford.edu.

You can develop your skills even further by pursuing the following resources we think are great:

ByteBoost 2.0

Funded by the NSF and DOE for AI and high-performance computing, the ByteBoost Cybertraining Program empowers researchers to harness the power of cutting-edge computing testbed platforms such as ACES and Neocortex. The 2026 program consists of six webinars and a week-long in-person workshop for hands-on learning and collaboration:

Wed 2/11/2026, 2 - 3pm ET, Overview of the ByteBoost program
Wed 2/25/2026, 2 - 3pm ET, ACES
Wed 3/11/2026, 2 - 3pm ET, Neocortex
Wed 3/25/2026, 2 - 3pm ET, TBD
Wed 4/8/2026, 2 - 3pm ET, ALCF AI Testbed
Wed 4/22/2026, 2 - 3pm ET, Stony Brook AMA27

In-person workshop: Summer 2026 (location TBD)

Learn more on the ByteBoost Website.

Learning Linux

Codecademy: Learn the Command Line: Now requires a monthly membership, but a good, interactive introduction to the command line. More "academic" than the games below. Also less fun.
Software Carpentry: The Unix Shell: One of many tutorials offered by the Carpentries, this one covers the basics (and advanced principals) of the Unix shell.
Hacknet: A $10 game with a simplified Unix syntax. Feel like you're in Sneakers! Makes learning the command line fun!
The Bandit Wargame: Free whitehat hacking tutorial that takes place on real servers in your actual terminal. They link to relevant documentation, but it might be a bit much for beginners.

Learning HPC

HPC Carpentry: An Introduction to High Performance Computing: A Carpentry lesson adapted for SRC infrastructure by our own Christina Gancayco!

Higher-level Language Resources