Here you will find the slides and the material employed in different events of the SIAM PDX student chapter.
If windows, try wsl
if mac, have access to terminal with most unix commands
Command line tool (sftp)
GUI's like winscp, filezilla, cyberduck
rsync
Common tools used to write distributed programs
MPI is a specification
SLURM is a software
Reading the docs and looking at examples on RC website are the best ways to get started