Table of Contents

Using the GWDG Scientific Compute Cluster – An Introduction

Slides

The slides for the course can be found here.

Please read before watching

These videos were recorded a while ago and a few things have changed since then. They remain largely relevant and are still helpful today, so we'll keep them online, but please take the exact commands used, especially when connecting to the cluster via ssh with a grain of salt. Please refer to our documentation for up-to-date information on anything that did not work as shown in the videos.

Important Linux Commands

Specifics of the GWDG Cluster

Modules

Compiling Software

Introduction into Slurm

Resource Selection

Jobscripts and /scratch Usage

Longer Jobs, the fat+ partition, GPUs and Debugging

Job Arrays, Dependencies and Useful Slurm Parameters