About These Guides
If you’re looking to understand, use, or administer Fuzzball, these guides are designed specifically for you, regardless of your level of HPC expertise.
Throughout the guides, there are many examples that work with little or no modification. New users are encouraged to run the examples while reading the guides.
The sections run roughly from everyday use to administration, so you can read only the parts you need:
- Start here. Fuzzball in 15 Minutes covers enough to run your first workflow. Many users need nothing more.
- Building workflows. Creating Fuzzfiles, Advanced Features, the Workflow Catalog, and Workflow Examples.
- Working with data. Using Volumes, Secrets, and the Object Cache.
- HPC and AI/ML workloads. Parallel / Distributed Jobs, GPUs and Fabrics, and Querying Compute Nodes.
- Automating Fuzzball. The Client SDK and the MCP Server for LLM Agents.
- Users, groups, and permissions. Entities explains the model, and Fuzzball Entity Management covers administering it.
- Deploying Fuzzball. Cloud Deployment Guides for cloud installations and Local Deployment Guides for on-prem installations, followed by Initial Configuration and Updating Fuzzball.
- Ongoing administration. Provisioner Administration, Volume Configuration and Management, Scheduler Administration, Slurm and PBS Integration, and Federate Admin Guides.
- When something goes wrong. Debugging, plus the Appendices for reference material such as the workflow syntax reference.
Throughout the guides, technical terms are highlighted on their first use within any given page. Clicking on these terms will open the appropriate entry within the Glossary.
When you’re ready, continue to Fuzzball in 15 Minutes.