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Altair Accelerator Tutorials
Discover Altair Accelerator functionality with interactive tutorials.
FlowTracer Beginner's Tutorials
Create a FlowTracer Project
The purpose of this tutorial is to guide one through the creation and use of a small FlowTracer project using a combination of the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
GUI Job Views
Now that you have a small flow, you can familiarize yourself with the console and its various views.
Grid View

What's New
View new features for Altair Accelerator 2025.1.0.
Install the Software
Read through the Installation Guide to get your software up and running.
Altair Accelerator Tutorials
Discover Altair 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.
- 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.
- FlowTracer Beginner's Tutorials
  - Create a FlowTracer Project
    The purpose of this tutorial is to guide one through the creation and use of a small FlowTracer project using a combination of the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
    - Set Command Line Environment
    - Create a Project
    - Enable a Shell
    - Restore the Shell Prompt
    - Check Project Information
    - Start the GUI Console
    - Use the Set Browser
    - Add a Job Interactively
    - GUI Job Views
      Now that you have a small flow, you can familiarize yourself with the console and its various views.
    - Navigate the Graph
    - Command Line Interface
  - Flow Description Language
  - Stop the Project
- FlowTracer Advanced Tutorials
- EDA Automation Tutorial
- Art of Flows Example Guide
- Generate Custom HTML Reports Using CGI Tutorial
- PDF Guides

Grid View

Open the Grid view by clicking

or by clicking the letter Q. This is an alternative graphical representation for the dependency graph in which arcs are not shown and the nodes are compactly arranged in a non overlapping grid. This view is effective when you have hundreds or thousands of nodes to show.