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This document also assumes you already have requested and been granted an account. If not, please see Getting an Account

Please also familiarize yourself with our policies before getting started. Sections 4-8 in particular contain important information on permitted and prohibited activities. If not all the terms make sense yet, don’t worry, we’ll be covering it further down in this document.

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For details please go to the SSL VPN page

PLEASE NOTE: If you are having trouble connecting to the ASU VPN you will need to contact ASU support. RC does not have any control or insight into the VPN and cannot assist with VPN issues.

Transfer needed files

This is optional, however most research is likely to require data sets to be imported. For details please see Transferring files or Google drive & Globus

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Submitted jobs are subject to the FairShare score. The more a user uses the supercomputer, the lower their score. Jobs will always eventually run, however, the lower the score, the longer a job may wait before actually starting (depending on the number of jobs pending in the queue). Usage is tracked but “forgotten” through exponential decay with a half-life of one week. A user may expect their FairShare score to halve for every 10,000 core hours of tracked usage.

Using

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GPUs

Scientific research increasingly takes advantage of the power of GPU’sGPUs. See our page on using GPU’sGPUs

Command line switches

Interactive and sbatch can take some command line switches which greatly affect the resources a job is assigned.

See our cheat sheet for a brief (but not complete) list of commonly used switches

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