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When you submit a job to an HPC cluster, you might request 4 CPUs, 8 CPUs, or perhaps an entire compute node.
But what does that actually mean?
Does one CPU mean one physical processor? Does one core mean one CPU? And where do threads fit...
When building an HPC cluster, we often focus on compute nodes, CPUs, RAM, GPUs, networking and storage.
But there is another important part of the design: how Slurm manages those resources.
A cluster might have hundreds of CPU cores and s...
Imagine having a powerful CPU with dozens of cores, but those cores spend time waiting for data from memory.
The processor is ready to work, but the data isn’t arriving quickly enough.
This is one reason why adding more CPU cores doesn’t...
If 1 CPU can run a program, then 8 CPUs should make it much faster.
Right?
Not necessarily.
This is one of the first things that can be surprising when learning HPC.
We can keep adding CPU cores to a system, but that does not mean an ap...
When people first learn about HPC clusters, they often notice something unusual.
The compute nodes don’t just have Ethernet.
Many HPC clusters also have InfiniBand.
So a natural question is:
Why?
If Ethernet already connects computers...
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