Advanced Topics

This section of the documentation contains information and guides on subjects which are more useful to users who are already using the HPC facilities to run jobs.

Here you can find information gathered from real-world examples of problems and use-cases the HPC community at Newcastle has encountered.

Optimisation of Slurm job parameters for specific workloads.

• Advanced Slurm Job Optimisation

Categories of software, help, scripts and guides for individual applications.

• Advanced Software Topics

Using HPC resources for interactive sessions and graphical applications; including R-Studio, Jupyter, Matlab and compute-intensive Linux desktop applications.

• Open On-Demand and interactive applications

• Password-less authentication using SSH keys
• X11 Forwarding for graphical applications

How to use container tools such as Docker, Apptainer and Podman on our HPC facilities.

• Using Container Tools

If you need access to more resources than available on Newcastle University HPC facilities, or with different, more specialised equipment, there are a range of Tier 2 and Tier 1 facilities which may be available to you.

• External HPC Facilities list

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