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Compute Cluster

Definition
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A compute cluster is a group of networked machines (nodes) that work together to run jobs in parallel, typically managed by a scheduler such as Slurm.

Topics
Compute and Hardware Bioinformatics
Synonyms
Cluster HPC cluster
Related
High-Performance Computing (HPC) Slurm Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Why it matters in GWAS

Large GWAS workloads are commonly distributed across cluster nodes to process many traits, chromosomes, or cohorts simultaneously within practical time limits.

Example usage

"We ran the full summary-statistics QC workflow on the compute cluster using one job per phenotype."

High-Performance Computing (HPC) Slurm Central Processing Unit (CPU) Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Random-Access Memory (RAM)
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Eijkhout V, van de Geijn R, Chow E. (2018). Introduction to High Performance Scientific Computing.
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