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UMBC High Performance Computing Facility
Resources for tara users
See the 2010 Resources Page for
documentation from before the June 7, 2011 change in scheduling policies.
The contents in this section will help you get up and running on our tara
computing cluster.
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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 important information about job scheduling on tara, see
scheduling 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.Other Languages
Other programming languages available on the cluster.Other Packages
Other packages available on the cluster. Domain specific (e.g. computational chemisty and biology)Libraries
Libraries available on the cluster, which can be used in your code. Parallel programming (besides MPI) Scientific-
netCDF
HDF4
HDF5
szip
General Productivity
Tips for working productively on tara.-
Running X Windows programs remotely
Using modules on tara
Accessing your backups
Using scripts to manage a performance study
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