Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)’s Bridges is a new XSEDE resource that will enable the convergence of HPC and Big Data within a highly flexible environment. This hands-on tutorial will demonstrate how to best leverage the unique features and capabilities of Bridges : extremely large shared memory (up to 12TB per node); virtual machines; GPU computing; Spark and Hadoop environments; interactivity; in-memory databases; rich data collections; graph analytics capabilities and powerful programming environment. The tutorial will also explain how to get a successful allocation for Bridges.