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{{site.data.alerts.warning}}The Merlin7 documentation is <b>Work In Progress</b>.
Please do not use or rely on this documentation until this becomes official.
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This documentation offers basic information for using the Merlin7 cluster. As of August 2024, the system is in *preproduction*.
**Only authorized test users are allowed to run in the cluster**.

If, by mistake, you ended up o this page and you have not been contacted by the Merlin admins to become a test user, please ignore it.

More information about the cluster will be soon available.