High Performance Computing (HPC)¶

The IT Center at RWTH Aachen University operates the High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster CLAIX to support German researchers, lecturers and industry partners.

This documentation provides detailed information about CLAIX, including technical specifications and user guides. If you are new to CLAIX, we recommend reading the following pages carefully. They cover the most important aspects of the HPC cluster and will help you get started.

For general information about HPC at RWTH, please visit our HPC landing page.

Operating System on CLAIX¶

Rocky Linux is the Operating System running on the CLAIX system and it is therefore required to have good foundational knowledge about its file structure, command line, scripting, ssh among other aspects of Linux.

New to HPC?¶

To help new HPC users learn the required tools needed to use our CLAIX system, our partners at HPC.NRW have prepared a series of video tutorials explaining the most important aspects. User can utilize those to get familiar with Linux, HPC and parallem programming, or other useful tools and topics: