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ILRI's high-performance computing "cluster" is currently composed of 7 dedicated machines:
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)To get access to the cluster you should talk to Jean-Baka (he sits in BecA). Once you have access you should read up on SLURM so you can learn how to submit jobs to the cluster.
The cluster is arranged in a master/slave configuration; users log into HPC (the master) and use it as a "jumping off point" to the rest of the cluster. Here's a diagram of the topology:
At the moment we don't backup users' data in their respective home folders. We therefore advise users to have their own backups.