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To get the most out of our clusters for machine learning applications, special care must be taken. A cluster is a complicated beast that is very different from your local machine that you use for prototyping. Notably, a cluster uses a distributed filesystem, linking many storage devices seamlessly. Accessing a file on < | To get the most out of our clusters for machine learning applications, special care must be taken. A cluster is a complicated beast that is very different from your local machine that you use for prototyping. Notably, a cluster uses a distributed filesystem, linking many storage devices seamlessly. Accessing a file on <code>/project</code> may <i>feel the same</i> as accessing one from the current node, but under the hood, these two IO operations have very different performance implications. In short, you need to [[#Managing_your_datasets|choose wisely where to put your data]]. | ||
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Python is very popular in the field of machine learning. If you (plan to) use it on our clusters, please refer to [[Python|our documentation about Python]] to get important information about Python versions, virtual environments on login or on compute nodes, < | Python is very popular in the field of machine learning. If you (plan to) use it on our clusters, please refer to [[Python|our documentation about Python]] to get important information about Python versions, virtual environments on login or on compute nodes, <code>multiprocessing</code>, Anaconda, Jupyter, etc. | ||
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* filesystem [[Storage and file management#Filesystem_quotas_and_policies|quotas]] on our clusters limit the number of filesystem objects; | * filesystem [[Storage and file management#Filesystem_quotas_and_policies|quotas]] on our clusters limit the number of filesystem objects; | ||
* your software could be significantly slowed down from streaming lots of small files from < | * your software could be significantly slowed down from streaming lots of small files from <code>/project</code> (or <code>/scratch</code>) to a compute node. | ||
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