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The contents in this section will help you get up and running on our tara computing cluster.

• If you would like to request an account, please fill out the the account request form
• Potential users and current users should always be aware of the usage policies
• For a hardware description of the cluster, see the system description
• For information about getting familiar with your tara account, see using your account

Tutorial: Compiling and running C programs

Read through this tutorial to get started writing programs (both serial and parallel) on the cluster. Even though these focus specifically on the C programming language, they discuss some fundamential issues such as how to interact with the scheduler, so all users should read them first.

• Compiling code (in C)
• How to run jobs

Other Languages

Other programming languages available on the cluster.

• Bash shell scripting
• C++
• FORTRAN 77
• FORTRAN 90
• Enthought Python

Other Packages

Other packages available on the cluster.

• IDL
• MATLAB
• COMSOL Multiphysics
• R
• SAS
• Octave (more info)

For computational chemisty

• GROMACS (more info)
• DOCK (more info)
• GAMESS (more info)
• CHARMM (more info)
• Gaussian (more info)
• NAMD (more info)
• VMD

Libraries

Libraries available on the cluster, which can be used in your code.

Parallel programming (besides MPI)

• OpenMP

Scientific

• netCDF
• HDF4
• HDF5
• szip

Math

• BLAS
• LAPACK
• PETSc
• SCALAPACK
• BLACS
• GotoBLAS
• FFTW

Tips and tricks

Tips for using your account effectively.

• Running X Windows programs remotely
• Generating batch scripts using shell scripting
• DoIT SLURM Usage Guide
• SLURM webpage
• Using Subversion for source control
• Tools for monitoring your jobs
• How to check memory usage
• How to check disk usage
• Interacting with compute nodes
• Working with documents and images