High Throughput Computing (HTC)
First a note: HTC is meant for a large number of small to medium size jobs. HTC is different than HPC (High Performance Computing) that would run large size jobs that require a high memory (RAM) footprint, and/or extremely large data files.
Biochemistry Department personnel can obtain access to the in-door cluster (Biochemistry Compute Cluster, see page BCC.) For larger projects the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) may be helpful and offers free access to all UW-Madison researchers. Jobs that require even more computation may be helped by the Open Science Grid (OSG.)
In all cases, computation is managed by submitting “jobs” that are managed by a “scheduler” called HTCondor.
HTCondor
A tutorial specific to BCC is available on a separate page: tutorials-htcondor.
Below are videos providing a general introduction to HTcondor and offers example on how to submit jobs.
HTC Job Execution with HTCondor (48:23)
This was the second public lecture during OSG Virtual School 2021.
Materials and slides are available at OSG Virtual School Materials
A User’s Guide to Submitting HTCondor jobs (54:54)
Similar material is also available on this alternate version of the video from 2020.
HTCondor manual
The latest HTCondor manual is online at: htcondor.readthedocs.io
Most useful: a QuickStart guide is available: quick-start-guide