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Basic HPC Concepts

What Is An HPC?

We have already covered why you may need to use an HPC in an earlier section,

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

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