last updated 2025 March 24
iHARP at UMBC held a High Performance Computing (HPC) bootcamp in November 2024, below are the resources that were developed. Please note some access to materials and high performance resources are restricted to UMBC members only.
Introduction
The video and document (access restricted to UMBC) introduces basic BASH commands for navigating the Linux terminal, including file navigation and manipulation. It then walks users through the process of accessing Ada, the university’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, via CLI tools. This section provides instructions for logging in, navigating the cluster environment, and accessing resources.
The resources covers job management with SLURM, teaching users how to write, submit, and track SLURM jobs on Ada. This includes creating job scripts, submitting tasks to the cluster, tracking job progress, and optimizing resource usage to ensure that computational workloads run smoothly and efficiently on the HPC cluster.
Instructional Introduction Video on UMBC’s High Performance Computing Ada Cluster
The bootcamp recording includes a voice over walk-through of UMBC’s Ada cluster.
Click the arrow in the circle (center of image) to play the video. To view the video chapters, please click the up arrow at the bottom of the screen.
UMBC High Performance Computing (HPC) Bootcamp Walk-through Documentation
Click here to navigate to the Google Document that contains written documentation and instructions to access UMBC High-Performance Computing (HPC) Ada cluster.
*Please note you must be a UMBC member to access the Google Document