RCDC User Guide
Welcome to the RCDC User Guide. We operate multiple compute resources. Carya is the latest addition. Opuntia and Sabine are RCDC's most used compute clusters.
The pages below explain how to access and use the RCDC high-performance computing environment.
If you seek additional help or information not contained in these pages, please open a support ticket.
| Getting Started on Carya, Opuntia or Sabine A quick start guide to get running on our clusters for first-time users. |
What's new on our clusters New operations model on Sabine/Opuntia clusters. |
| Allocations Information about allocations. |
Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions about RCDC systems. |
| Glossary Technical terms used in the User Guide. |
To make the User Guide more accessible, we have tried to explain key terms in a non-technical way. When reading the User Guide pages, please keep in mind the following:
- a core is the microprocessor that carries out the computation (also, "central processing unit", or CPU),
- a node is a machine that will handle your computing tasks (it has memory, cores and an operating system),
- a partition is a collection of nodes with similar technical specifications (amount of memory, etc.), and
- the cluster is the complete collection of nodes with networking and file storage facilities.