In this lesson we'll learn how to submit and run jobs on a cluster computer.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how a cluster differs from a desktop or laptop computer
- Learn job management commands
- Be able to submit a job to a queue and check its status
Cluster computing is explored in the following linked documents.
- Overview of cluster computing
- Blanca
- Getting a login on Blanca
- Logging in to Blanca
- Modules
- Job scripting
- Summary
- Overview of the CU Research Computing Blanca and Alpine clusters
- CU Research Computing user guide
- Slurm documentation
This work utilizes the Blanca condo computing resource at the University of Colorado Boulder. Blanca is jointly funded by the University of Colorado Boulder and users such as CSDMS, which purchased nodes on Blanca through the National Science Foundation.