This is a collection of solutions for various specific tasks on ARC and other HPC systems.

General

• How to transfer data
• How to compress data for archival
• How to organize a shared storage space
• How to work with large number of small files

Linux

• How to use Linux Permissions
• How to understand absolute and relative paths in Linux
• How to change locale settings

Containers

• How to convert a Docker container to an Apptainer container

ARC

• How to find available partitions on ARC
• How to find current limits on ARC
• How to check states of ARC partitions and nodes

• How to check GPU utilization
• How to find detailed information about past jobs on ARC

• How to run an interactive job on ARC (work in progress)
• How to request an interactive GPU on ARC
• How to request GPUs for batch jobs on ARC

• How to use ARC scratch space
• How to use local storage on ARC's compute nodes

• How to access ResearchFS stroage from ARC

SLURM

• How to use array jobs in SLURM
• How to generate a usage report from SLURM
• How to find nodenames allocated by SLURM for a job

Globus

• How to share data with Globus - DNA sequencing lab

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