Documentation for Athene and general purpose computing clusters

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Accessing Athene

Research Computing offers two ways to access Athene, our high performance computing (HPC) cluster. Click here to learn more.

Athene Slurm Partitions

Slurm partitions are groupings of compute nodes with specific limits or policies, such as maximum run time, number of nodes, or job priority. Partitions help manage how resources are allocated on the cluster.

Backups and Archives

A summary of how Research Computing backs up data for the General Purpose Computing Infrastructure and Health Infrastructure. Researchers should note that the BHRIC resources follow a standard backup schedule but that backups are best effort for the General Purpose Computing Infrastructure. We recommend that users archive their work products to Microsoft One Drive and/or Microsoft Teams.

Creating ssh keys for MAC/Linux

SSH keys allow for improved access to Research Computing clusters by bypassing the need for 2Factor authentication. Adding your public key to the cluster will allow tools such as ssh, putty and others to more quickly and easily connect.

Creating ssh keys for Windows

SSH keys allow for improved access to Research Computing clusters by bypassing the need for 2Factor authentication. Adding your public key to the cluster will allow tools such as ssh, putty and others to more quickly and easily connect.

Home directory not found

Learn how to fix the "Home directory not found" error message when accessing OnDemand.

How to ssh to Athene using Mac/Linux

This article explains how to securely connect to the Athene cluster using SSH (Secure Shell) on Mac/Linux. SSH is the primary method for accessing the cluster to submit jobs and transfer files.

How to ssh to Athene using Windows

This article explains how to securely connect to the Athene cluster using SSH (Secure Shell) on Windows. SSH is the primary method for accessing the cluster to submit jobs and transfer files.

Interactive Fluent

Fluent is a fluid simulation software. There are multiple methods of using Fluent interactively. Click here to read more.

Nodes available on Athene

Nodes and features available on Athene. Click here to read more.

Open OnDemand File Explorer

Open OnDemand helps computational researchers and students efficiently utilize remote computing resources by making them easy to access from any device. It simplifies user interface and experience.

Research Computing Storage

Most Research Computing Cluster resources mount storage to /mnt/beegfs, and users are provided a 300GB quota by default. The cluster will email you daily if you are over quota so make sure to stay under to avoid unexpected emails and warnings about cost overruns.

Running Jupyter with SciKit-learn

Scikit-learn is an open source data analysis library, and the gold standard for Machine Learning (ML) in the Python ecosystem. Algorithmic decision-making methods, including:Classification,Regression, and Clustering.

Sample SBATCH script

SBATCH Script is a way to submit jobs on Athene. These jobs can be done with SRUN and SBATCH scripts. Click here to read more.

Setting Up Globus Online

Instructions on setting up Globus. Globus is a storage service for Athene files. Click here to read more.

Submitting Jobs on Athene using Slurm (salloc, srun, sbatch, sinfo, squeue)

Slurm is an open source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters. Click here to learn more.

Transferring files

Uploading files to compute resources can be accomplished using command line tools such as SCP or Secure File Transfer tools such as Web Transfer tools such as Globus Online, Windows File Explorer, and OnDemand.

Transferring files for Business via rclone

Rclone is an open source command line program to sync files and directories to and from local storage to cloud based storage, such as Google Workspace. Rclone is installed on FAU Research Computing Services and available via module load module load rclone-1.59.1-gcc-9.4.0-k53kthf (this may change on different hardware so use module load avail to search). Click here to read more.

Transferring files from Koko to Athene

Provides instructions for accessing the Koko system via SSH, transferring directories and files using the SCP command, and prompts the user for their research computing password during the transfer process.

Transferring files from Koko to Sharepoint

Koko is our high performance computing cluster. Sharepoint is a service that can be used to receive the files from Koko. Click here to read more.

Viewing Job and Node Information with Slurm

Learn how to use Slurm commands like sacct, squeue, and sinfo to monitor your job history, check the job queue, and view available compute nodes on the Athene cluster.

Which queue provides GPU's?

Determining which Queue has which GPU.