Basic Usage

This chapter provides information useful by users from all levels, but specially tailored for beginners or those who will use the cluster only sporadically.

We start on Terminal-based Text Editors a more in-deep exploration of the 3 main text editors in Unix/Linux: nano, emacs and vim. The next section

• Terminal-based Text Editors
  • Nano
  • Emacs
  • Vi/Vim
• Data Storage
  • Knowing my current usage
  • Searching for empty files
  • Searching for Big Files
• Environment Modules
  • What are Modulefiles
  • Listing available modefiles
  • Showing what a modulefile does
  • Loading and Unloading modulefiles
  • Using modulefiles through qsub
• Workload Manager (SLURM)
  • Understanding Partitions
  • Submitting batch jobs
  • Monitoring jobs
  • Canceling a job
  • Estimation of the starting time for a job
  • Detailed information about jobs
  • Controling the limit of time for a job
  • Specifying number of Nodes, tasks and CPU Cores
  • Translating PBS Scripts to Slurm Scripts
  • OLD DOCUMENTATION
  • Interactive Jobs
  • Graphical Interface Jobs
  • Checking the Status of Jobs
  • Canceling/Removing a Job
  • Adding Prologue and Epilogue scripts to a Job
  • Samples of Job Submission scripts
  • Script for running a non-array batch queue
  • Script for running an array batch queue
• File Transfer (Globus and SFTP)
  • Overview
  • Transfer Data
  • Share Data
  • Archive Data
  • Publish Data
  • Data Transfer Nodes
  • Alternative Transfer Methods
• Web Interface (Open On-Demand)
  • Interactive Computing from the Terminal
  • Interactive Computing from a web interface
  • Accessing the Dashboard
  • Interactive applications
  • MATLAB
  • File Manager
  • Job manager
  • Job composer
  • Terminal