Commit 33c21aa6 authored by Alexander Rosenberg's avatar Alexander Rosenberg

revised intro to the login node

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## Login node
Access to the cluster is provided through SSH [(What is SSH?)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWKK_PNHnnA&ab_channel=Tinkernut) to the login node. The login node serves as the gateway or entry point to the cluster. It is important to understand that the login node is not for running computationally intensive tasks itself. Instead, it is for tasks such as file management, editing, and job submission. The actual computational work is done on the compute nodes, which you access indirectly by submitting jobs through Slurm, the job scheduling system.
Access to the cluster is provided through SSH access to the login node. The login node serves as the gateway or entry point to the cluster. Note that most software tools are not available on the login node and it is not for prototyping, building software, or running computationally intensive tasks itself. Instead, the login node is specifically for accessing the cluster and performing only very basic tasks, such as copying and moving files, submitting jobs, and checking the status of existing jobs. For development tasks, you would use one of the development nodes, which are accessed the same way as the large compute nodes. The compute nodes are where all the actual computational work is performed. They are accessed by launching jobs through Slurm with `sbatch` or `srun`.
## Scheduler policies
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