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+# Intro
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+Teaching material used during the High Performance Computing session of the EMBL Software Carpentry course.
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+# Commands
+
+Below are most of the commands used during the practical, so they can be copy/pasted, but I highly recommend typing along if you can.
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 ## Identifying our computer
 
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