How-Tos

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 current limits on ARC

• How to find available partitions on ARC

• How to use ARC scratch space

• How to run an interactive job on ARC

• How to request GPUs for batch jobs on ARC

• How to request an interactive GPU on ARC

• How to check GPU utilization

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