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====== Glossary ====== | ====== Glossary ====== | ||
- | * **Batch** When you want to launch | + | |
- | * **Core** Modern CPU contains many cores. You can see each core as a computation unit. | + | |
- | * **Head node** The head node or login node is the entry point for the users. You connect to the head node to have access to the cluster. | + | * **CPU**: Central processing unit, the main computing unit of every computer that runs the OS and various programs. |
- | * **Interactive** When you want to launch | + | * **Core**: Modern CPU contains many cores, each of which can be seen as a computation unit. |
- | * **Job** | + | * **FLOPS**: Floating-point Operations Per Second. |
- | * **Node (compute)** A server of the cluster, where the actual computation is made. | + | * **GPU**: Graphics Processing Unit, co-processors originally designed for graphic rendering, now widely used for general-purpose computing. |
- | * **Partition** In SLURM, the compute nodes are grouped by partitions. Each partition can have different characteristics. | + | * **Head node**: The head node, or login node is the entry point for the users. You connect to the head node to have access to the cluster. |
- | * **Resources** | + | * **HPC**: High Performance Computing, and also the name of your HPC service. |
- | * **Scheduler** As the cluster is shared | + | * **HPC cluster**: Our compute infrastructure, |
- | * **FLOPS** FLoating-point Operations Per Second | + | * **Interactive**: When you want to launch software like you would do on your own computer and be able to interact with it. It's not good to do that on clusters |
- | * **Scratch space** | + | * **Job**: Your program executed against your data on a resource. |
+ | * **Network interface**: | ||
+ | * **Node (compute)**: A server of the cluster where the actual computation is made. | ||
+ | * **Partition**: In Slurm, the compute nodes are grouped by partitions. Each partition can have different characteristics. | ||
+ | * **Primary Investigator or PI**: Your boss. | ||
+ | * **RAM**: Random Access Memory, fast memory used to store programs and related data while they are executed. | ||
+ | * **Resources**: For example, the CPUs, memory, disks. | ||
+ | * **Scheduler**: As the cluster is shared | ||
+ | * **Scratch space**: A space on a hard disk drive that is dedicated for the storage of temporary user data. It is unreliable by intention and has no backup. |