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HPC User Dokumentation
An online wiki created by the Data Science Center to help you answer questions you might have about our high-perfromance system and how to use it.
Helpful commands
A collection of Linux and Slurm commands that are good to know when working with our cluster
Quick Start Guide
A Guide for users on how to use the High Performance Infrastructure of the Data Science Center
Advanced User Guide (Comming Soon!)
Linux and helpful commands
In this section we listed some Linux terminal commands for those who are not used to operate with Linux through the command line. General commands Commands that can help you with operating the Terminal clear Clears all output in the Console ...
FAQ
A collection of frequently asked questions in regards to errors and problems that may help you with a problem you might have. I keep getting the message "job [x] queued and waiting for resources". Is this a technical problem that needs to be fixed? Thi...
SLURM commands
On this page you can find a list of helpful SLURM commands and an explanation of what they do and how to use them. Commands for getting Information: sinfo With this command you can retrieve information about the state of the partitions and nodes that ...
Connecting to the system
Here you can find information about how you can connect to the cluster and what to keep in mind. You can only access the system from inside the university network. This means you either have to be physically at the University Campus and be connected there o...
Transfering your data to and from the system
Information about transfering your scripts and required data from your home machine to the cluster. If youre transferring a lot of small files it might be better to put everything into one zip file, upload it and open it on the cluster. Terminal tools T...
Preparing to submit a job: loading libraries
Steps you need/should do before you submit your job to be executed. Loading Libraries There is a difference of how we handle libraries on our Cluster Computer in comparison to your personal computer/workstation. The tool we are using to load libraries i...
Submitting a job on the system
How to submit your job to the resource manager so it can be processed. Now that your script and data is on the system you will have to run your task as a SLURM job. There are 2 different ways of doing this. The interactive way where you input the specific...
Preparing to submit a job: job script
A very simple example on how to write a job script. An SBATCH script (job script) is a script that can be used to divide a big task into smaller steps that can be executed parallely in order to cut down on processing time. It also brings the advantage that...
Terms of Use
Here you can find a list of requirements you should keep in mind if you want to use the High Performance Infrastructure of the DSC. Course on how to use our IT-infrastructure To get access to the cluster you have to attend the "Scientific Computing at the...
System Architecture and Resources
Here you can find a short description of the system and resources we are offering. The Cluster: Gallifrey The computational resources that we offer is not just one machine, but a cluster computer. A cluster computer is a system that consist of multiple ser...
Mailing List
Here you can find the mailing list for the DSC computing cluster. If youre part of the mailing list you will get updates on the cluster and its uptime or reservations via email so you can plan ahead if you have something to compute on the cluster. The lin...