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. 2021 Aug 5;17(8):e1009207. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009207

Fig 1. Simplified organisation of a typical HPC system.

Fig 1

Users log in remotely via SSH to a login node from a client machine. Jobs are scheduled by job scheduler software running on the master node and run on compute nodes and GPU nodes. Gateway node(s) facilitate the transfer of large files into and out of the HPC system. GPU, graphics processing unit; HPC, high-performance computing; SSH, (Secure Shell Protocol).