diff --git a/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/quickstart/getting_started.md b/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/quickstart/getting_started.md index 2195e2751adfabd682bb7e5a35df9dcdfc72ac5c..de7a7fe87b2e264c168f309c9b4b3c6d4664f952 100644 --- a/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/quickstart/getting_started.md +++ b/doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/quickstart/getting_started.md @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ For additional information refer to the detailed documentation on [modules](../s ## Running a Program/Job -Running programs on an HPC machine is called **running jobs**. +At HPC systems, computational work and resource requirements are encapsulated into so-called jobs. Since all computational resources are shared with other users, these resources need to be allocated. For managing these allocations a so-called job scheduler or a batch system is used. On the ZIH system, the job scheduler used is [Slurm](https://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart.html).