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

The following onboarding workshop is an introduction to the new Cloud HPC facility provided by the Advancing Research Computing team and the University of Bath.

Prerequisites

In order to complete the workshop you should be familiar with:

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

Schedule

Approximate timings for the lesson:

Time	Episode	Description
0:00	Accessing the System	Logging onto the system
0:10	Infrastructure	Infrastructure
0:20	Slurm	A brief overview of slurm
0:30	Compute Instances	Overview of compute instances available
0:40	Software	Using software modules
0:50	Storage	Filesystem and where to keep your data
0.55	Transferring FIles	Transferring files to and from the system
1:05	Running a job	Submitting a job