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Slurm, like PBS and LSF, is a commonly used task management system for supercomputers. The advantages of Slurm are that it is open source, free, and highly active. In recent years, almost all emerging supercomputer platforms in China have provided Slurm as the main task management system. After PBS was open sourced, its activity was pitifully low. After updating to the latest system, there were always problems with installation, and no response was received for the issues raised. LSF has copyright risks and is not widely used in China. It is a very rare type. As for commands and scripts, these three are similar. Once you learn one, you can easily learn the other.

Running calculation files in a virtual machine will cause the virtual disk to expand and take up too much disk space. At this time, you can transfer the calculation files to the host disk by mounting the host folder, avoiding the problem of virtual disk expansion. Creating a shared folder in Windows is omitted here. You only need to ensure that the virtual machine can access the host through the IP address.

1. Requirements

Consider installing Linux on a new computer, not a dual system, because it also needs to meet daily office work. If you don’t like to mess around, you can use WSL, which is implemented using Hyper-V, and at the same time, you can access the virtual machine through port mapping.

2. Preparation

2.1 Download Ubuntu

I am a CFD, so I naturally cannot do without Fluent. This thing is a distribution version. Confirm which distribution is supported from the official website information, and install which one is supported, so as not to reinstall the system later.