HPC introduction

Although working on High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures is not rocket science, there are still a number of things you need to be aware of to do so efficiently. Note that this session is specific for (potential) users of the infrastructure managed by the Vlaams Supercopmuting Centrum (VSC).

Subjects:

• how to access the systems
• architecture of a cluster
• shared file systems
• software stack
• resource manager and scheduler
• accounting

Prerequisites:

• familiarity with the Linux command line