System technical documentation for Niflheim

This page contains system technical documentation for Niflheim describing the installation of Slurm batch queue system, software modules, and networking topics. (Note: This information is probably not useful for end users of Niflheim, please refer to the page_for_users in stead).

These pages are for Slurm >= 23.02 and EL8/EL9 Linux. Older archived versions of these pages with information related to pre-23.02 Slurm and CentOS 7 Linux may be found in the archive or in the v24.06 release of these pages.

Slurm documentation

• Slurm batch queueing system
• Slurm documentation
• Slurm operations
• Slurm installation and upgrading
• Slurm configuration
• Slurm database
• Slurm accounting
• Slurm job scheduler
• Slurm cloud bursting

Software documentation

• EasyBuild software for environment modules

• Ansible_configuration of Linux servers and desktops

Hardware documentation

• Hardware_documentation of servers and other devices

Networking documentation

• Omni-Path network fabric by Cornelis Networks
• Omni-Path switches
• Linux cluster system administration
• Using Multiple Ethernet Cards