On-line resources for new Linux and ARC users

General

• ARC Manual for neuroimaging medical analysis at UofC (2019):

https://bookdown.org/u0243256/arc/

• EBook, R Programming for Data Science:

https://bookdown.org/rdpeng/rprogdatascience/

Linux command line

• If you are new to Linux, there is an easy to use reference for the Linux command line.

It is available for free download: http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

SourceForge page for it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxcommand/

• Interactive tutorials: https://linuxsurvival.com/

Containers

• Workshop "How to use Singularity!":

https://singularity-tutorial.github.io/

Interesting reading

• The effect of switching to TCMalloc on RocksDB memory use.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-effect-of-switching-to-tcmalloc-on-rocksdb-memory-use/

The article discusses the differences between the standard glibc malloc and TCMalloc memory allocators.