Preface
Revision: b8388823f · Jun 19 2026
Welcome to the User Manual for NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11.
0.1 About This Manual
This manual is intended for the end users of a cluster running NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 (BCM, also known as “the cluster manager”). This manual tends to see things from a user perspective, and covers the basics of using BCM’s user environment to run compute jobs on the cluster. Although it does cover some aspects of general Linux usage, it is by no means comprehensive in this area. Readers are expected to have some familiarity with the basics of a Linux environment from the regular user point of view.
Regularly updated production versions of the NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 manuals are available on updated clusters by default at /cm/shared/docs/cm. The latest updates are always online at
https://docs.nvidia.com/base-command-manager.
The manuals constantly evolve to keep up with the development of the NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 environment and the addition of new hardware and/or applications. The manuals also regularly incorporate feedback from administrators and users, who can submit comments, suggestions or corrections via the website
https://enterprise-support.nvidia.com/s/create-case
The relevant section of the Administrator Manual has more details on submitting an issue.
0.2 Getting User-Level Support
A user is first expected to refer to this manual or other supplementary site documentation when dealing with an issue. If that is not enough to resolve the issue, then support for an end-user is typically provided by the cluster administrator, who is often a unix or Linux system administrator with some cluster experience. Commonly, the administrator has configured and tested the cluster beforehand, and therefore has a good idea of its behavior and quirks. The initial step when calling in outside help is thus often to call in the cluster administrator.