HPC

Reading Time: 5 minutesManaging an HPC cluster efficiently requires more than simply installing Slurm. Daily administration involves monitoring jobs, inspecting nodes, maintaining partitions, troubleshooting scheduling issues, and responding quickly to unexpected events. While Slurm provides hundreds of commands and options, a relatively small set is used regularly by administrators to keep clusters operating smoothly. This article covers the…

Reading Time: 7 minutesThis article shows an introduction to Luster File System. First and foremost: What is Lustre? Lustre is a distributed, parallel file system designed for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. It is a storage architecture for clusters! In simple terms, it’s a filesystem that distributes data across multiple servers, allowing many clients to read and write simultaneously…

Reading Time: 4 minutesView Information About Slurm Nodes and Partitions displays details of partitions and nodes for a Slurm system. First and foremost, if you’re new to HPC and Slurm (like me), I’d recommend some articles that we’ve written about this subject: Let’s Explore High Performance Computing Setting Up a Slurm Cluster in a Lab Environment So, let’s…

Reading Time: 6 minutesAn Introduction to Job Submission on a Slurm Cluster provides the basic commands for submitting jobs. First and foremost, we’ve written an article explaining how to deploy a Slurm cluster in a lab environment. If you wanna check this article, please click here. srun – Interactive/Immediate Execution The “srun” command is used to launch a…

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is a simple article that demonstrates an error when submitting a job to a Slurm cluster, outlines the details of the error, and explains how to fix it. First and foremost, I’d like to share two articles related to this topic. The first is an introduction to HPC and Slurm (click here to access the article),…

Reading Time: 11 minutesSetting Up a Slurm Cluster in a Lab Environment shows, step-by-step, how to deploy and configure a Slurm cluster. Previously, we’ve written an article introducing HPC and Slurm. You can check this article by clicking here. First and foremost, I’m not an expert on HPC or Slurm (I’m a learner). So, as I advance on…