This skill provides an overview into the scheduling of jobs on a supercomputer. It covers generic and widely used concepts that serve the purpose to maximize the efficiency of a supercomputer.

To enable practitioners to comprehend and describe the basic architecture and concepts of resource allocation for an HPC system

• comprehend the exclusive and shared usage model in HPC
• differentiate batch and interactive job submission
• comprehend the generic concepts and architecture of resource manager, scheduler, job and job script
• explain environment variables as a means to communicate
• comprehend accounting principles
• explain the generic steps to run and monitor a single job
• comprehend scheduling principles (first come first served, shortest job first, backfilling) to achieve objectives like minimizing the averaged elapsed program runtimes, and maximizing the utilization of the available HPC resources