Admin Guides

Overview

All articles can be found in the category HPC-Admin and have been created by the competence network HPC.NRW (HPC.NRW-Best-Practices). Please use the Discussion pages of the individual articles for questions or comments.

Security

• Fail2ban
• Two-Factor Authentication with OTP

Operating Systems

• Compute Node Deployment
• Regression Testing
• Pacemaker
• Parameters and Limits

Scheduling

• Scheduling Algorithms
• Fair-Share Scheduling in Heterogeneous Clusters

Software Deployment

• Easybuild
• Module Systems
• Software Container

Commercial Software and Software Interfaces

• License Conditions for Users
• Restricted Access to Software

Login and User Management

• SSH to Compute Nodes

Interactive Services

• Customizeable Remote Desktop with NoVNC
• Fastx
• Remote Dektop with GPU Acceleration

File Systems and External Data Access

• BeeGFS Tuning
• BeeOND
• Data Transfer with Globus Online
• File System Separation
• Lustre Tuning