HPC Novice: Glossary

Key Points

Introducing High-Performance Computing	A cluster or distributed system is useful when your computations require more than one computer. Because a cluster is distributed, it is only useful for certain types of computational problems.
Logging In And Transfer Data To and From	A cluster is many small computers rather than one large computer The login (head) node is the entry-point to the cluster A secure shell client is a program that lets us log-in to other computers and run a command-line on them
HPC architecture	To be filled with a fact/sentence.
Using the Batch System 101	To be filled.
The Shared File System	to be filled.
The Environment Modules	to be filled.

Glossary

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