• Home
  • Accessing Our Facilities
    • Apply for Access
    • HPC Resource List
    • Our Staff
    • Our Research Projects
    • Our Research Software

    • Contributions & Costings
    • HPC Driving Test
  • Documentation
    • Documentation Home
    • Getting Started
    • Advanced Topics
    • Training & Workshops
    • FAQ
    • Policies & Procedures
    • Using the Wiki

    • Data & Report Terminology
    • About this website
  • My Account
    • My HPC Projects
HPC Support
Trace: • concepts

This is an old revision of the document!


Basic HPC Concepts

What Is An HPC?

Collection of resources, access more than practical on a single computer, long running hours and days at a time, split problems up across multiple computers, many users

Special software considerations; Linux, mostly (but not completely) command line


HPC Nodes & Resources

Compute, Storage, Login, Interactive


HPC Software

Scheduler, what is a scheduler? Slurm

  • Introduction to Slurm

Back to Getting Started

Previous Next

HPC Support

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

  • Basic HPC Concepts
    • What Is An HPC?
    • HPC Nodes & Resources
    • HPC Software

Main Content Sections

  • Documentation Home
  • Getting Started
  • Advanced Topics
  • Training & Workshops
  • FAQ
  • Policies & Procedures
  • Using the Wiki
  • Contact us & Get Help

Documentation Tools

  • Wiki Login
  • RSE-HPC Team Area
Developed and operated by
Research Software Engineering
Copyright © Newcastle University
Contact us @rseteam