Introduction to HPC and Slurm#
The HPC Cluster#
Our cluster is a high-performance computing (HPC) resource available to the Northeastern University research community. The cluster is in the Massachusetts Green HPC Center (MGHPC) in Holyoke, MA. MGHPC is a 90,000 square food, 15-megawatt research computing and data center facility that houses computing resources for five institutions: Northeastern University, Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Massachesetts (UMass).
Slurm#
We use the job scheduling manager slurm
to perform vital actions in the cluster, including allocating access to a compute node for a duration of time so users can do their work. Slurm also allows the work that is performed on the cluster to be monitored (e.g., start-time, end-time, and memory resources used), and it manages the use of computing resources through a queue of pending jobs.
To learn more about how to use slurm on the Northeastern cluster please see our slurm documentation or reach out to rchelp@northeastern.edu for any additional questions.