GWDG HPC Guide

A practical guide for the Ecosystem modelling group at the University of Göttingen on using the GWDG Scientific Compute Cluster (SCC) for simulation work in R.

Who this guide is for

Researchers in our group who want to run many independent simulation runs in parallel. We mainly use R — often as a wrapper around models written in C++, Rcpp, or NetLogo.

How to use this guide

The sections build on each other. Read them in order until you reach the workflow that matches your use case, then stop.

Section	Read if…
Getting Access	You are new to the HPC
Working with the Cluster	Everyone
R on the HPC	You run R simulations (most users)
R in Apptainer	Your workflow needs a Docker container
EFForTS-ABM–InVEST	You work with the EFForTS coupled model

Getting help

Join the GWDG HPC Matrix channel and ask Sebastian for help.