4  Notions of HPC

4.1 Monitoring my computer

What is computer doing?

htop

4.2 Serial computing

serial computing

4.3 Parallel computing

4.4 Computer architectures

Laptop processor architecture

HPC architecture

4.5 Using Apolo cluster with Slurm

Slurm is a job manager scheduler. It brings order to the jobs sent by users of the clusters and facilitate the process of check the state of the job in the cluster and the actual state of the cluster itself. To do so it has basically three main commands. The first one is sinfo

4.6 The Slurm instructions

To send then a job into the computer cluster several instructions should be specified so that the appropriate scheduling take part Fig. 4.1

Figure 4.1: Slurm specifications to send a job into the cluster service