The SCC is currently in the alpha stage.

This means that we are actively developing the system and adding new features. Mistakes are going to be made and sometimes, things are going to break.

Especially in the early phase, we also might need to redeploy parts of the system or issue reboots.

Please be patient with us and report any issues you encounter to in our official matrix space.

Introduction

The SCC is a joined project of the University of Salzburg, the Salzburg State Hospital (SALK), the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (FH Salzburg) and the University Mozarteum Salzburg to provide high-performance computing resources to researchers in Salzburg.

Major funding for the SCC has been provided by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and the State of Salzburg.

The SCC is a computing cluster, using slurm as the resource manager. The way this basically works is that there are some very powerful servers, called "Compute Nodes" which can run your code. However, you do not access these nodes directly. Why? Because others also want to submit their jobs so the resources need to be distributed amongst the users who need them at the moment.

So, instead, you define so-called "Jobs" and submit them to the slurm controller. The controller puts your jobs into a queue and when it is your turn, it transfers it to one of the compute nodes and runs it there.

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Current Status

As already mentioned, the SCC is currently in the alpha stage. This means that not all features are implemented yet and some things might still change.

Here is an overview of the currently available and planned features:

Status	Feature
✅	Slurm Job Scheduling
✅	CPU Nodes
❌	GPU Nodes
❌	Infiniband
✅	CEPH Storage
✅	Interactive Jobs with OpenOndemand
❌	Virtual Machine
❌	Matlab
❌	EasyBuild

Acknowledge the SCC

It is very important for the further development of the SCC that we can track the impact it has made on the scientific output.

It is therefore required to acknowledge the use of the SCC in both the following two ways:

Add the SCC in PURE

If you use PURE to manage publications at your institution (PLUS, FH Salzburg, SALK), you should find a research infrastructure called "Salzburg Collaborative Computing" in the database. Please add "Salzburg Collaborative Computing" under Relations → Research infrastructure.

Add the SCC to the acknowledgments

Please add the following text in all publications (articles, posters, presentations, books, etc.) that used ressources provided by the SCC:

The authors acknowledge the computational resources and services provided by Salzburg Collaborative Computing (SCC), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and the State of Salzburg.