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Leaving Dartmouth - Research Computing resources

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Leaving Dartmouth
When you leave Dartmouth you will no longer be able to login to the multi-user Linux systems such as Polaris, Andes, and the Discovery cluster.    You will also lose access to DartFS network

When do I need to use the VPN client?

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Wifi, Network, VPN and Phone
solution has enough capacity by only using it when you need to. Requires VPN DartFS-Networked Attached Storage used in labs, HPC and web applications Discovery (HPC) MyFiles/OurFiles (File

Graduating Students - Research Computing Resources

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Leaving Dartmouth
  3. Graduating Students - Arts & Sciences
Discovery cluster You will also lose access to DartFS network storage. Deadline Approximately 60 days after graduating, any DartFS storage that is in your name will be deleted. After 60

MobaXterm

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Software and Solutions
settings when you ssh to a server.. To run an app on Discovery that will appear on your local screen: Click the "Session" button to start a new session Click SSH for the session type Enter

Research Computing Bill of Rights

  1. Services
  2. Research
Performance Computing (HPC), GIS, data visualization, statistical analysis, software development and more access to HPC resources (Discovery, Andes, and Polaris) DartFS: personal and shared data storage

Important update regarding our service charges collection policy, effective from July 1, 2023.

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
  3. High Performance Computing
financial year or at the beginning of service. Specifically, data storage and compute charges, including but not limited to DartFS, virtual servers, containers, and Discovery shares, will be

Single-Core Job Example

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
  3. Discovery Cluster
  4. SBATCH (job submission)
discovery. sbatch will copy the current shell environment and the scheduler will recreate that environment on the allocated compute node when the job starts.  The job script does NOT run .bashrc or

Recover files/folders from a DartFS snapshot

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
  3. DartFS
From a Mac or Linux The easiest way to recover these files is to: Log into Andes/Polaris/Discovery from a Terminal application Change directories to the hidden .snapshot folder – note

HPC Scratch Space

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
  3. High Performance Computing
volume. Instead create a sub-directory that matches your username. For example “mkdir /scratch/mynetid”. Files and directories older than 45 days in local scratch on discovery, polaris, or andes are

Scheduling Jobs

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
  3. Discovery Cluster
  4. SBATCH (job submission)
The Batch System The batch system used on Discovery is Slurm. Users login, via ssh,  to one of the submit nodes and submit jobs to be run on the compute nodes by writing a script file that

Slurm partition overview

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
  3. Discovery Cluster
Discovery Slurm Partitions Overview: Partition Time Limit Description Nodes standard 30-days Default partition for general use. k24-k55, m01-m20

Hardware Resources for Researchers

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Software and Solutions
  3. Other Software
Details Researchers at Dartmouth have access to High Performance Computing (HPC) resources including the Discovery cluster and Linux computer servers with licensed mathematics and statistical

Changing Your AFS Password

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
  3. OpenAFS and RSTOR
DetailsYou can change your password from any system that has the Kerberos tools or AFS client installed. The easiest way for Linux users is to login to Polaris, Andes or Discovery and use the command

How to launch research software applications (Matlab, Stata, R, Mathematica) on Andes and Polaris high-performance linux machines (HPC's)

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
  3. Software for Research
available versions        $ module avail stata        $ module load stata/15 ​​​​         $ xstata         $ spss        $ sas Note: to use the "Discovery" HPC, there are extra

Research Computing Accounts

  1. Knowledge Base
  2. Research Computing
across all Research Computing Linux systems (Polaris, Andes, and the Discovery cluster).  Home directories can also be directly mounted from a personal computer as long as it is on the Dartmouth network