RCF Computing Cluster User Guide

Getting Started:

• About the RCF Computing Cluster
  • Hardware Configuration
  • Scheduling Manager
  • Software
  • Sending Feedback
• Account Access & Storage
  • Accessing the Cluster
  • Copying & Editing Files on the Cluster
  • Large Datasets / Outputs
• Submitting Jobs
  • Submitting Interactive Jobs
  • Submitting Batch Jobs
  • Choosing a Partition
  • Submitting Multiple Batch Jobs at Once
  • Submitting Multiple Batch Jobs with Job Arrays
  • Checking the Status of a Job
• Choosing Requested Resources
  • Partitions / Job Queues
  • Software Contraints:
  • Know your Code!
  • Trial and Error

MPI Examples:

• Message Passing Interface (MPI)

Software Examples:

• Sample Python Jobs
  • Creating a Python Virtual Environment
  • Activating / Using the Python Environment
  • Submitting a Python Script to Demonstrate Parallel Processing (within a single node)
  • Utilizing Batch Scripts to Submit Multiple Jobs in Parallel
  • More Examples
• Jupyter Notebooks
  • Starting Jupyter Through an Interactive Job
  • Summary of Commands (as a SBATCH Script)
  • Jupyter Lab
• Sample R Jobs
  • Installing R Packages
  • Running R in Interactive Mode with Slurm
  • Submitting a Non-Interactive (Batch) Job to Slurm
  • Utilizing Batch Scripts to Submit Multiple Jobs in Parallel
• Julia
• SageMath and GAP
  • Using SageMath on the cluster
  • Creating the SageMath virtual environment
  • Installing additional packages
  • Submitting a sage script to slurm
  • Using GAP on the cluster
• Pari / GP
• Magma

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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