Worker framework: To manage lots of small jobs on a cluster. The cluster scheduler isn't meant to deal with tons of small jobs. Those create a lot of overhead, so it is better to bundle those jobs in larger sets.
The checkpointing framework can be used to run programs that take longer than the maximum time allowed by the queue. It can break a long job in shorter jobs, saving the state at the end to automatically start the next job from the point where the previous job was interrupted.
Running jobs on GPU or Xeon Phi nodes: The procedure is not standardised across the VSC, so we refer to the pages for each cluster in the "Available hardware" section of this web site
