What is the Storage Quota Limit in HPCC?

By default, each user is allocated a Home directory (/icto/user/$USER) and a Data directory (/data/home/$USER) for data storage, as well as a temporary directory (/scratch) for temporary storage during job running. Faculty and individual PI have the option to purchase additional disk storage to expand their working space. Storage Name Directory Quota System Backup Clean-up […]

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What is the queuing and scheduling scheme in HPCC?

HPC Cluster runs under the control of a queue management system which is SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management). SLURM is similar to most other queue systems. You write a batch script and submit it to the queue manager. The queue manager then schedules your job to run on the designated queue (called PARTITION in […]

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What is “Environment Modules” in HPCC?

In order to use the installed software, it is necessary to configure the relating environment variables for compilers and libraries so that searching paths are correct, corresponding libraries can be linked up, license servers can be connected, etc. To make it easier for you to select and switch between different software packages, ‘Environment Modules’ (modules.sourceforge.net) […]

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