{"id":115,"date":"2020-09-20T04:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2020-11-24T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:32:20","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 \u2018workers\u2019. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/files\/2020\/09\/workflow.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" width=\"594\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/files\/2020\/09\/workflow.png 594w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/files\/2020\/09\/workflow-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/request-an-account\/\">Request an account<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/login-to-the-cluster\/\">Login to the cluster<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/change-password\/\">Change password<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/basic-linux-commands\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"210\">Basic Linux commands<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/rsph.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=a9e7a90f-055c-4753-9e51-ac7a003b9d58\">BIOS Workshop Tutorial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/files\/2020\/11\/2020-11-20-BIOS-HPC-Workshop.pdf\">(slides)<\/a><br>(Emory Panopto account is required to watch the Tutorial video. If you don\u2019t have a Panopto account contact: help@sph.emory.edu)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2018workers\u2019. This is similar to how a skyscraper is &#8230; <a title=\"Getting Started\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/getting-started\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Getting Started\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7027,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rsph-hpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}