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Discover Accelerator functionality with interactive tutorials.
Altair Accelerator User Tutorials
In the following User Tutorials, you will experiment with Accelerator on most topics that a user would be most interested in, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, analyzing and solving common problems, etc.
Run Jobs with Various Options
In this section, we will exercise some options in nc run command.

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Accelerator Tutorials
Discover Accelerator functionality with interactive tutorials.
- Altair Accelerator User Tutorials
  In the following User Tutorials, you will experiment with Accelerator on most topics that a user would be most interested in, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, analyzing and solving common problems, etc.
  - Use Accelerator Help
    Accelerator documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
  - Enable CLI Access on UNIX
    This section explains how to set up a UNIX user's shell environment to have a proper context for the user to run installed Altair Accelerator programs from the command line. The programs that are run from the command line are called the CLI commands.
  - Enable CLI Access on Windows
    This section explains how to set up a Window user's command prompt environment to have the proper context for the user to run installed Altair Accelerator programs from the command line. The programs that are run from the command line are called the CLI commands.
  - Run Basic Jobs
    Submitting jobs to Accelerator is quite simple: just use nc run followed by the command you would use without Accelerator.
  - Get Summary Information
    nc summary, nc list and nc info jobId will be the three commands that you use frequently to get information about the jobs managed by Accelerator.
  - Run Jobs with Various Options
    In this section, we will exercise some options in nc run command.
  - Job Control
    Accelerator provides several commands of job controls, including wait, stop and forget.
  - Rerun Jobs
  - Get Detailed Information about a Job
    The command nc displays information about a job.
  - Monitor Jobs, Taskers and Resources
    The activity of Accelerator can be monitored with a dialog.
  - Invoke the GUI
    Job execution can be monitored with nc gui.
  - Use the Web Browser
  - Troubleshooting
- Altair Accelerator Administrator Tutorials
  In the following tutorial, you will experiment with most issues that an Accelerator administrator will need to address, including starting/stopping the server, configuring FairShare, resources, taskers and environments.
Altair Accelerator User Guide
Basic tasks in Accelerator, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, and analyzing and solving common problems.
Altair Accelerator Administrator Guide
Configure and manage the use of Accelerator after it is installed.

Run Jobs with Various Options

In this section, we will exercise some options in nc run command.

To get the detailed usage, use the following command:

% nc run -h