HPC cluster

Oleksandr Savenkov

10/15/2019

Intro



  • Brief tutorial on HPC cluster


  • SCU account


Architecture of the cluster

Changes



  • Submission host: curie.pbtech (NOT panda2)


  • No more SGE scheduler
    • older version scripts may not work


  • Slurm

Unix tips



  • some basic command will be helpful


  • may want to use aliases

Interactive session



  • may be helpful for some simple tasks


  • do not run on the submission host


  • use a node

R on cluster



  • Spack: package manager, similar to yum, apt-get



  • Demonstration

Example



  • Simple simulation