πΊοΈPBSTOP - Your Cluster Roadmap
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Type pbstop
into your terminal. You should see a screen that looks like this:
This is your 'birdseye view' of the cluster.
Some helpful terminology:
Cluster: The cluster is the set of all sub-clusters within the W&M HPC system.
Subcluster: a set of computers with similar computing characteristics.
W&M's HPC has multiple sub-clusters including Vortex, Bora, Hima, Meltemi, etc... You can read about each of them here: https://www.wm.edu/offices/it/services/researchcomputing/hw/nodes/index.php
Node: A node is an individual computer within a sub-cluster.
Core (aka Processor): An individual processor on a node.
Each node on Vortex has 12 processors. This basically means you can run 12 individual python processes on a Vortex node, or 1 process on each processor. You could also run one process across multiple processors (or the whole node) if you need all of the memory available.