Introduction to HPC and Slurm#

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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).

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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.