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Use the Reading Academic Computing Cluster (RACC)
The Reading Academic Computing Cluster (RACC) is a Linux cluster which provides resources for interactive research computing and batch job submissions to the University of Reading staff and students. It consists of several load-balanced login nodes for interactive research computing, such as data analysis and visualisation or code development and testing, and a larger number of compute nodes for serial and parallel batch jobs.
You can learn how to connect to and use the RACC by reading the user guides:
- You can find a short overview on our introduction page.
- How to log in and start an interactive computing session is described on the login and interactive computing page.
- On the batch jobs page you’ll learn about how submitting jobs to the compute nodes works.
- There’s an overview of commands and allowed resources on our slurm commands and resource allocation page.
- You can also use the RACC for GPU computing.
We have a list of software that is available on the ACT systems as well as a guide on how to access software on the cluster.
If you have a script that needs to be executed regularly you can schedule it on the dedicated cron job node.
Further useful documentation related to the RACC, such as e.g. using python on the cluster, can be found in our cluster articles.
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