TL;DR This Entire Guide in 1 Epic List
Get Access
- Obtain an MToken from the Computer Showcase Repair Center
in Pierpont Commons. All pickup locations on the list.
- Activate your MToken at http://mtoken.umich.edu/.
At the time of writing, this was done using this Google Doc:
- Accept the Synopsys off-campus license terms using this form:
- Request an HPC user account with this form:
- Request a new Flux allocation (professors) or access to an existing one (students)
- Students: have your professor email hpc-support@umich.edu
- Professors: request a new allocation by emailing hpc-support@umich.edu the following:
- number of cores needed
- start date and duration needed
- list of users (students) that should have access to submit jobs
- list of users that should be admins (you and GSIs) and able to change user list and allocation properties
- shortcode for funding
- Wait one full business day (at least)
Running Jobs
- If you don't know the shell, stop and go learn it.
- From on campus, SSH into the Flux login nodes
using
flux-login.engin.umich.edu.
- Submit a new job using
$ qsub -A prof-uniqname_flux -l qos=flux -q flux your-job-script.sh
- See the CAC *nix Quick Reference Sheet for more commands:
- Download the example Flux job scripts and drop them into your
scripts directory in Better Build:
Helpful People
- Dan Barker for general questions and getting an allocation set up.
- Bennet Fauber for Flux-specifics and issues with Synopsys.
- Kyle Smith's voicemail for all the questions you have because you skipped the rest of the guide and only read this page
- Kyle Smith for all legitimate questions / concerns / beers.