Overview

In contrast to a server a high performance computing (HPC) cluster (e.g. Euler) contains many thousands of inter-connected compute nodes. You can thus use much more resources but you need to consider some aspects that we will discuss here in this tutorial.

Main Questions

• How do I access the pre-installed tools?
  
• What are the most important cluster-related commands?
  
• How do I run a job?
  
• How can I be sure that all my hundreds of jobs have been completed successfully?
  
• How can I optimise my jobs?