Cluster: is a collection of computers that work together for the purpose of high-performance computing (KUACC HPC cluster)
Node: server, computer (Example: ai01, ai02 etc)
Partition: is a set of compute nodes. A node can belong to more than one partition, and each partition can be configured to enforce different resource limits and policies. (Example: users, ai, ilac etc)
Account: is a slurm group used to enforce limits and priority. Users are associated with an slurm account.
Qos: is a mechanism for jobs to request certain features, scheduling priority, and limits. This is used for requeuing jobs. (Examples: users, ai, ilac etc)
Task: means process in Slurm. By default, 1 task uses 1 core.
Job: is a collection of tasks. Jobs have an ID number and a name. ID is assigned by slurm. Name can be assigned by user.
All users must submit jobs to reserve resource and run their codes on cluster. There are two kinds of jobs which are called as interactive and batch jobs. See the batch and interactive jobs page for more information.