Reference

Additional Resources

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• HPC Carpentry
• Green software use on HPC
• The HPC wiki
• HPC.NRW Competence Network

Glossary

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HPC

High Performance Computing

Node

A single server in an HPC systems.

Login node

Special purpose server to log in and interact with an HPC system. Also called: front end node.

Cluster

or HPC system, a collection of many nodes and services to provide a single large system that can be used for scientific computing.

Job

Unit of work on an HPC system managed by the batch system. Typically a bash script containing all to-be-executed steps of a workflow.

Batch system

also scheduler, responsible for distributing jobs to available resources on worker nodes.

Module

A provided software of a specific version that can be loaded when needed.

Slurm CPU

“CPU” in the context of Slurm options and mentions is often referring to a single core of a multi-core CPU.

Profiling

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Sampling

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Tracing

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