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Introduction

  • What is a cluster?
  • What is /tigress?
  • What is a GPU?
  • New User's Guide

Storage

  • Where should I store my files?
  • How do I use local scratch?
  • How do I check my quota?

Programming and Debugging

  • Using Environment Modules
  • How to build a program using Intel MKL
  • Profiling with Allinea MAP
  • Debugging with DDT on the clusters
  • Profiling with Intel VTune
  • Using Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector

Applications

  • How to run MATLAB jobs on the clusters
  • How to run Stata on the clusters
  • How to run Synopsys and Cadence on the clusters
  • How does Princeton University's GitHub service work?

SLURM/MPI/OpenMP

  • How to kill a Slurm job
  • How to use OpenMPI with OpenMP or multi-threaded Intel MKL
  • There are plenty of processors available. Why won't my job run?
  • How do I check my job's memory, local disk, or thread usage?
  • Useful SLURM commands

Visualization

  • How do I visualize data on the clusters?
  • How do I use VNC on tigressdata?
  • Suppressing windows and graphics while running on the HPC clusters

Miscellaneous

  • Why can't I login to a cluster using SSH?
  • How to word Acknowledgement for use of clusters/systems for Publication
  • When do systems undergo scheduled maintenance
  • How do I connect to one of the nobel machines directly?
  • Using Filezilla with the nobel system
  • Making Duo access more convenient

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