**Overview** This session will be divided into 2 parts: The first part will focus on the Tri-Agency RDM Policy requirement of completing a Data Management Plan (DMP), and will introduce the DMP Assistant as a valuable tool in creating a DMP. After providing a walkthrough of the DMP Assistant, the remainder of the session will be spent reviewing and discussing the questions and considerations of the DMP template for Advanced Research Computing (ARC), to help you thoroughly prepare and plan for research projects in a high performance computing (HPC) environment. The second part will begin by introducing UBC ARC Sockeye, which is an on-premise HPC system available to UBC researchers. This supercomputer provides an environment to accelerate their research timeline - if you struggle to analyze data on a laptop because of data size, this system is for you. We will outline the technical details of the system, how you can access this resource, as well as use cases. The session will conclude by getting those who have signed up for RDM with HPC 2 to log on to Sockeye, in preparation for that session. This session is part 1 of 2 sessions in the RDM with HPC mini-series. There is no obligation to attend the second session, although if you are able to attend both, we think it will be all the more valuable!