Guides

Guide Topics

Research computing encompasses a broad range of topics.  These guides should help you get the most out of the services and tools available:

Slurm

Slurm is the brains of the cluster.  Knowing more about this critical system can help you become more productive.

• Overview
• Batch vs. Interactive
• Job Options
• The Job Queue
• Batch Scripts and sbatch
• Batch Script Generator
• Interactive Jobs
  • Use salloc to get a shell on a compute node
  • Nova OnDemand and Slurm
• Troubleshooting
  • Job Failures
  • Job History and Accounting

Software

• Using Software Modules
• Building Software
  • Compilers and Build Systems
  • Using Spack to Build Packages
  • Containers
• Guides for Specific Applications
  • Engineering Apps - (Abaqus, Ansys, COMSOL, STAR-CCM+, HFSS, etc.)
  • Statistics  - (R, R Studio)
  • Mathematics - (Matlab, Mathematica, Julia)
  • Code Debugging (DDT)
• Developing with Python
  • Python Virtual Environments
  • micromamba
  • Python and VS-Code
  • JupyterLab/JupyterHub
• Using VS-Code on Nova
• Machine Learning and AI
  • Using PyTorch
  • Using TensorFlow

Transferring Files

• The Data Transfer Node (DTN):  novadtn.its.iastate.edu
  • Using SCP or Rsync
  • Filezilla, Winscp, etc.
• Globus
• To and From the LSS
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Nova Cluster
  • VPN
• Accessing  /work and /ptmp directories from your PC
• Rclone - Accessing Cloud Storage

File Storage

Work Storage

PTMP

Classtmp

$TMPDIR

Large Scale Storage (LSS)      

• About LSS