For academic staff and PhD students
Solve your research problems by harnessing the power of Bath's Nimbus cloud supercomputer.
High performance computing (HPC) is used in all academic disciplines - from big data analysis in social sciences to engineering simulations, physical sciences modelling and business-related forecasting.
Join our next training course
We aim to offer this training course quarterly based on demand.
Please note: This training session is aimed at new users of the Nimbus HPC Cluster.
For more advanced HPC queries you can join the monthly Nimbus Drop-In Sessions to request support from the Research Computing Team
Simply submit your email to let us know you would like to sign up to our next Introduction to Cloud HPC training course.
Course schedule
The course is held over 3 hours:
- Research Computing Team and Services
- Overview of High Performance Computing
- Part-1: HPC Funding, Agresso and the RCAM portal
- Part-2: Introduction to Nimbus
- Compute Options
- Accessing Nimbus, File System, Software Environment
- Submitting and Monitoring Jobs
- Part-3: Hands-on Labs Session
- Q&A
Prerequisites
- To prepare for the meeting please familiarise yourself with the Unix Shell, self guided training material can be found here. Other Nimbus training material can be found on our website.
- To be able to submit jobs to Nimbus and participate in the training you must have an account on Nimbus. Please contact your departmental research computing champion to request an account with some funding from the departmental budget.
Video recording of a previous training session
To help you get started using Nimbus, we have recorded a previous training session held in June 2023.
- Video recording of the morning session NB: Recording stops at 44 min.
- Video recording of the afternoon session