Practical HPC

A short course introducing the CHPC cluster.

Connecting to the CHPC

• This provides a hands on tutorial on how to login to the CHPC Cluster

CHPC Systems: the Users’ view

• This gives you an outline of what you as user will see when logged into the CHPC cluster

Moving around the file systems

• This will give you a feel for what it means to navigate the file system

CHPC Environment & modules

• This describes how to view and access software packages on the cluster

What is an HPC Job-Scheduler?

• This article explains the purpose of an HPC job-sheduler. It focuses on PBS Pro, but most of the information is applicable to most other schedulers as well.

Requesting and Using an Interactive Session

• This article explains how to request an interactive session on Lengau, the CHPC cluser - giving details of the PBS-Pro and bash commands used. It also explains why you should use an interactive session for some jobs, and not for others.

First job script

• This provides you with details on creating your first PBS job script

Monitoring: qstat, ssh, htop

• This gives you details on how to submit a job to the cluster, monitor the job and the running thereof, and view the output produced when the job is complete