Intro

This folder contains instructions and files for setting up the example cluster used during the course. It's included here mostly for my benefit next time I want to redo the setup, but it might be useful to others.

Cluster infrastructure

The cluster we're using is running on the Heidelberg installation of the de.NBI cloud. The current design is to create a 4 node cluster (1 controller, 3 compute nodes), with varying hardware specifications for each node so we can demonstrate resource managment.

Job scheduling is doing using SLURM since it is (a) free and (b) mirrors the infrastructure we're currently using at EMBL.