IG Cluster
Welcome to the documentation pages of the IG Cluster !
This cluster is administrated by the Informatique Logicielle et Intelligence Artificielle (ILIA) unit of the Informatique et Gestion (IG) department of the Faculty of Engineering (UMONS).
What is a cluster ?
A cluster is an array of computers (nodes) linked together on a fast network. They often share a large filesystem to access files across the array of nodes.
Usually, a scheduler is used to assign user’s tasks to run them as jobs on the cluster. The scheduler allow jobs to run on many nodes simultaneously, without user interactions, when the desired resources are available. Therefore, users don’t need to keep their laptop running 24/7 to get the job done.
Will it run faster ?
A cluster is not a magic bullet that will make your application run faster. It is intended mostly for parallel algorithms that use several processors simultaneously. Otherwise, your computations could run slower than on a recent workstation.