Cirrus Documentation

Cirrus is EPCC's Tier-2 High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster.

This repository contains the documentation for the service and is linked to a rendered version on Github pages.

This documentation is drawn from the Sheffield Iceberg documentation and the ARCHER documentation.

Rendered Documentation

• Cirrus Documentation (HTML)

How to Contribute

We welcome contributions from the Cirrus community and beyond. Contributions can take many different forms, some examples are:

• Raising Issues if you spot a mistake or something that could be improved
• Adding/updating material via a Pull Request
• Adding your thoughts and ideas to any open issues

All people who contribute and interact via this Github repository undertake to abide by the ARCHER2 Code of Conduct so that we, as a community, provide a welcoming and supportive environment for all people, regardless of background or identity.

To contribute content to this documentation, first you have to fork it on GitHub and clone it to your machine, see Fork a Repo for the GitHub documentation on this process.

Once you have the git repository locally on your computer, you will need to install Material for mkdocs to be able to build the documentation. This can be done using a local installation or using a Docker container.

Once you have made your changes and updated your Fork on GitHub you will need to Open a Pull Request.

Building the documentation on a local machine

Once Material for mkdocs is installed, you can preview the site locally using the instructions in the Material for mkdocs documentation.

Making changes and style guide

The documentation consists of a series of Markdown files which have the .md extension. These files are then automatically converted to HTMl and combined into the web version of the documentation by mkdocs. It is important that when editing the files the syntax of the Markdown files is followed. If there are any errors in your changes the build will fail and the documentation will not update, you can test your build locally by running mkdocs serve. The easiest way to learn what files should look like is to read the Markdown files already in the repository.

A short list of style guidance:

• Headings should be in sentence case