Welcome to RDHPCS’s Documentation

Maintenance Calendar

The RDHPCS Maintenance Downtime Calendar has events for NESCC (Hera, HPSS, Niagara), Jet, Gaea, PPAN, and the Boulder and Princeton Bastions, and other RDHPCS system downtimes.

Users can subscribe to the calendar.

Note

You must be logged in to your NOAA Gmail account to see the calendar.

Accounts and Projects

• Accounts and Projects
  • Applying for a user account
  • Request access to RDHPCS projects
  • Requesting access to MSU-HPC systems
  • Account Activity Requirements: Suspension, Deactivation, Reactivation
  • Request a New Allocation or Project
  • Common Access Card (CAC)
  • RSA Tokens
  • Role Accounts

Connecting

• Connecting
  • Connecting for the first time
  • Secure Shell (SSH) Access
  • Bastion Hostnames
  • Common Access Card (CAC) SSH Login
  • RSA SSH Login
  • Selecting a Node
  • X11 Graphics
  • SSH Port Tunnels
  • Web based ParallelWorks Access

Getting Help

• Getting Help
  • Submitting a Good Help Request
  • Required Information for Specific Types of Help
  • Managing Help Tickets
  • Help Ticket System User Portal

Systems

• Systems
  • General Information
  • Gaea User Guide
  • RDHPCS Cloud Computing
  • Jet User Guide
  • Hera User Guide
  • Ursa User Guide
  • Mercury User Guide
  • MSU-HPC User Guide
  • PPAN User Guide

Data Storage and Transfers

• Data Storage and Transfers
  • Summary of Storage Areas
  • NESCC HPSS
  • GFDL Archive
  • Data Transfer Overview
  • Transferring Data
  • Globus Online Data Transfer
  • Globus Example
  • Migrating Data Between Local File Systems

Queue Policy

• Policies and Best Practices
  • System Usage
  • Cron and scrontab usage
  • Allocations
  • Quotas
  • File System Usage Practices and Policies
  • Filesystem Backup and Data Retention
  • Data Disposition
  • Managing Packages in /contrib
  • Queue Policy

Software

• Software
  • Modules
  • Python
  • Workflow Software
  • Debugging with Forge DDT
  • Compilers
  • Containers
  • X2Go Remote Desktop
• Tectia
  • Tectia Initial Setup procedure
  • Install and Configuring Tectia
  • Port Tunnelling

SLURM

• Slurm
  • Overview

FAQ

• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Accounts
  • Jobs
  • User Issues
  • Port Tunnels
  • Recent User-Facing Changes
  • RDHPCS Office Hours

References

• Glossary

How to contribute to the Documentation

• Contributing to these docs
  • Overview
  • GitHub Guidelines
  • Workflow for contributions to the documentation repository
  • Resources
• Contributing via the CLI
  • Setup authoring environment