Day 0 is an optional preparation session designed to make sure participants have the command-line, HPC access, and software setup needed for the main workshop.

What You’ll Learn

• Command-line basics, including navigating directories, viewing files, piping commands, and editing files
• Shell scripts and $PATH
• Confirming HPC account and allocation/queue access
• Installing or testing Nextflow
• Confirming Docker or Singularity/Apptainer availability
• Running a short environment sanity-check script
• Requesting an interactive HPC session using salloc
• Loading required modules such as Nextflow and Singularity/Docker

NC State participants: We will help confirm your HPC account and allocation/queue access during Day 0.

External participants: You should already have an active account and allocation on your institution’s SLURM-based HPC cluster and know how to request an interactive session on that system.