High Performance Compute Services

High Performance Compute Services

Table of Contents


Overview

UW ARCC offers several HPC resources for different use cases. This core service is performed primarily over Medicinebow however ARCC maintains a number of specialty HPC resources for special use cases. UW ARCC maintained resources are listed below and links provided for more detailed information. Additionally UW ARCC Provides UW researchers with support on External HPC Resources including allocations on NWSC.

List of HPC Services and Subpages

Notice: Effective post maintenance, Monday January 13th, 2025, Medicinebow will be updated to reflect policy changes outlined here. This includes changes to how users request jobs, and training materials may be out of date post maintenance.

Additionally, the Beartooth cluster reaches End of Life effective January 2, 2025. Please reference this article, reminding user to migrate to MedicineBow.

Wiki Documentation List

About Medicinebow

Architecture and Hardware Summary
Filesystem Structure
Software List
PBS to SLURM: Command Translation Cheatsheet
Getting Familiar with Linux Command Line
Citing Medicinebow
ARCC Facilities Statement

Logging Into an ARCC Cluster

Log into MedicineBow from a browser (UWYO User accounts)
Log in to Medicinebow (non-UWYO user accounts)
Configure SSH Logins from your personal device

HPC Web Applications (On Demand)

Run an Interactive Job with OnDemand
Launch R Studio from OnDemand
Launching Jupyter from OnDemand

Running Jobs: SLURM Job Scheduler

Submitting Batch Jobs from Command Line
Run a Job: Batch Script Basics & Common Terms
Running Interactive Jobs from Command Line
Job Output & Logging

Query HPC System and Job Information

Software

Using Preinstalled Software

What’s Already Installed? Search for Modules
Load Software: Module System (LMOD)

Install Software (Environments & Kernels)

Conda Environments
Importing Jupyter Kernels

Navigating the Cluster Filesystem

Common ARCC Cluster Directories
Linux FileSystem Structure and Navigation
Access & Move Your Data
Using SCP and SFTP
Using RSync / RClone