HPC-AI-Healthcare-Training

High Performance Cluster (HPC) short tutorial for UCL AI-Enabled Healthcare CDT

Why use the HPC?

• No CUDA enabled GPU on your laptop
• Don’t want your laptop to become a radiator
• Run parallel experiments and get results quicker
• Hyper optimization
• BIG GPU’s
• Free service
• Relatively high freedom to manage your own environment
• Learn key skills for industry
• Secure place to store healthcare data
• Active support

Why not use the HPC?

• Takes time to setup
• Job queue times
• Unix is hard and ugly
• Unfamiliar environment
• I have a huge GPU in my desktop it’s enough for what I want to do
• Prefer to learn commercial cloud services (AWS GCP AZURE)

How does it work?