From aa217e16cb23bab615fdf579b7fc1d32bc8a062f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schroschk <martin.schroschk@tu-dresden.de> Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 09:21:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Better description --- doc.zih.tu-dresden.de/docs/quickstart/getting_started.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 2195e2751..de7a7fe87 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). -- GitLab