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Southpass is available on and off campus from the https://southpass.arcc.uwyo.edu website. You will be presented with UW’s Shibboleth login page. If you’re off campus, you’ll have to use your 2-Factor authentication.
Interacting with Southpass
Once you are logged in you will be presented with a site web interface that looks similar to the following:
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The Southpass home page interface is broken into different areas:
The gold menu bar across the top of the page, which contains tabs for:
Apps - All Applications
Files - Allows you to work with files from different authorized file systems
Jobs - Job management tools
Clusters - Access to and status of different clusters
Interactive Applications - Allow you to run specific tasks or software
Message area, the light yellow ribbon below the task bar, displays useful messages from the system.
Pinned Apps, the area on the bottom left of the web page, contains quick access tiles to different applications supported on Southpass.
Message of the day, located in the bottom right corner of the web page, displays any important information about the current day.
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Files Dropdown
The file Files drop down allows you to see your different storage space that you have access to. After selecting a storage space, you will be shown the files in that area. You can then:
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Note: The current max file size is limit is set to 10GB.
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Jobs Dropdown
From the Job Jobs drop down, One you can either view your jobs or all jobs currently running on the Teton Cluster. From the Job Composer subpage one , you can manage all aspects of running jobs on the Teton Cluster. You can:
Create New jobs from templates to run on the cluster.
Create personnel job templates to support your work
Submit jobs to the cluster
Delete jobs that have been submitted to the cluster.
Edit job files
Set job options for a job
Delete Job files that are not longer needed
Note: Job composer script is limited in size and defaults to approximately 65kb. If your job script is larger than this then it will not be accepted.
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Clusters Dropdown
The clusters drop down provides a link to obtain shell access to the Teton cluster login nodes. This is the same as using SSH to connect to the cluster’s login nodes.
Note: Be aware that on some browsers if you have a custom shell prompt it may not display properly.
Interactive Apps
For interactive applications you will need to fill out the job page and then submit it to the cluster.
You should properly close out the Desktop when you no longer need it. This can be down by using the GUI logout feature or using the Delete button on the job page. This releases all requested resources back to the the system. You should also occasionally delete any old jobs as they are left in your home directory. This can lead to your home directory quote being consumed.
Desktops
The Interactive Desktops drop down contains items to launch certain GUI environments on Teton compute nodes (this has limited node support). You will get a complete Linux desktop when you submit the job and connect to the environment. Currently supported GUI environments are Mate and Xfce desktops. Once you have submitted the job, your job will be queued and when resources are available you will be provided a “Launch Teton XX Desktop” button. clicking this button will open a new browser tab and the GUI will be displayed.
Servers (Applications)
The interactive server part of the Apps drop down contains items to launch certain GUI applications interactively on different Teton cluster compute resources. One then gets a fully functioning application on the requested compute resources. Some of the currently supported applications include:
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