Welcome to the OpenFlightHPC Build Knowledgebase!

This site contains the documentation for the OpenFlightHPC project. It contains tips and tools for streamlining the building and management of a HPC research environments. While the documentation will mainly focus on the OpenFlightHPC Research Environment workflow there will be notes and tips to customising the process for varying workflows.

Documentation Goal

The purpose of this documentation is to provide understandable guidance to delivering the OpenFlightHPC Research Environment. This includes deploying resources on a given platform and installing the relevant software.

Environment Delivery is the installation of software for the user experience on the research environment. This usually involves some sort of resource management/queuing system and application installation.

Note

It is recommended to read through all of the documentation before starting to design the HPC platform to understand the scope and considerations.

Acknowledgements

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License

This documentation is released under the Creative-Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Table of Contents

Deploying Resources

• Workflow: AWS
• Workflow: Azure

Configuring Environment

• Workflow: Ansible
• Workflow: Manual

Managing Resources

• OpenFlight Action
• Workflow: AWS
• Workflow: Azure

Using Environment

• Basic Research Environment Operation
• Working with Data and Files
• Genders and PDSH

Running Jobs

• Local Jobs
• What is a Scheduler?
• Slurm Scheduler