Introduction to Nimbus: The University of Bath's Cloud HPC

Prerequisites

In order to start using Nimbus you should be familiar with:

  • The linux command line
  • Accessing and submitting jobs to High Performance Computing clusters as a user

Content

Section Description
Introducing HPC Introducing HPC
Accessing the System Logging onto the system
Infrastructure Infrastructure
Slurm A brief overview of slurm
Compute Instances Overview of compute instances available
Software Using software modules
Storage Filesystem and where to keep your data
Transferring Files Transferring files to and from the system
Running a job Submitting a job