HPCCloud

Terminology

Jobs

Jobs, or Primary Jobs, are special types of tasks running on an HPC resource.

Tasks

Tasks are any thing run within simulations.

Taskflow

Taskflows are collections of tasks run to orchestrate a given simulation workflow.

Workflow

Workflows are collections of steps which define some pattern for executing a process.

Projects

Projects are collections of simulations.

Simulations

Simulations are collections of taskflows.

Clusters

Clusters are any machine that you can run jobs on.

Traditional Clusters

Traditional cluster are dedicated HPC resources, usually based on physical hardware.

AWS Profile

AWS (Amazon Web Services) profiles consist of a Access key and a Secret key with which a user can provision EC2 instances.

EC2 Instances

EC2 Instances are virtual machines running on Amazon’s EC2.

ParaViewWeb

ParaViewWeb is a tool in Paraview which allows a user to use ParaView through a web browser.

Simput

A simulation deck input tool. Consult the Simput GitHub repository for more.

Simulation step

Simulation steps symbolize different taskflows within a simulation. They can have different states aswell. For example many steps have the substeps “Start” which starts a taskflow and “View” which views logs and statuses for the taskflow.