How to Select Compute Resources for a Job on ARC Clusters

Term: Fall 2026

Date: September 25th, 2026

Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Location: Online Only

Instructor: Chris Kuhlman

Presented By: Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

Description:

ARC clusters have different computing resources (compute node architectures, types of processors, memory, numbers of compute nodes of different types), making the collection of ARC clusters purposely heterogeneous.  The clusters provide different resources with different strengths to better handle particular types of computations.  Similarly, computing needs across VT users vary.  We address concepts and examples for how to select ARC resources for your jobs.

Course Objectives:

Learn to assign your (slurm) jobs to resources that are (1) most efficient in performing your computations, and (2) most available to start your job sooner.