High-Performance Computing (HPC) is the use of groups of computers to solve computations a user or group would not be able to solve in a reasonable time-frame on their own desktop or laptop. This is often achieved by splitting one large job amongst numerous cores or ‘workers’. This is similar to how a skyscraper is built by numerous individuals rather than a single person. Many fields take advantage of HPC including bioinformatics, chemistry, materials engineering, and newer fields such as educational psychology and philosophy.
![](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/rsph-hpc/files/2020/09/workflow.png)
HPC clusters consist of four primary parts, the login node, head (management) node, worker nodes, and a central storage array. All of these parts are bound together with a scheduler such as SLURM.
- Request an account
- Login to the cluster
- Change password
- Basic Linux commands
- BIOS Workshop Tutorial (slides)
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