Overview

Teaching: min
Exercises: min

Questions

• What are best practices for using a large, shared compute system?

Objectives

Topics:

Shared resource – abide by policies so that everyone can benefit

Common policies: no processes on head nodes, manage your data, don’t submit a bajillion jobs at once.

Communicate with IT staff

Key Points

• A shared system requires all users to be good citizens.

• Know and abide by the policies of the system that you are using.

• Ask for help.