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?