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Getting Help
Support staff may be contacted via:
Griffith Library and IT
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Help 3735 5555 or X55555
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Email support: eresearch-
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support@griffith.edu.au
Online Form: https://www.griffith.edu.au/eresearch-services/request-help?hpc
You can log cases on service desk
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tool Cherwell https://
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com/CherwellClient/
Note for classifying your request:
Quick Classification: HPC
Service: eResearch
Category: Research Computation, Analysis and Visualisation
Subcategory: High Performance Computing
Team: RSD - eResearch and Specialised Platforms - HPC
eResearch and Specialised Platforms, Griffith University
Email: eresearch-support@griffith.edu.au
Web: eresearch: https://www.griffith.edu.au/eresearch-services
Getting Started
Logging in.
To log in to the cluster, ssh to
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gowonda10.250.250.7 clogin1.rcs.griffith.edu.au |
What is ssh
SSH Secure Shell provides users with a secure, encrypted mechanism to log into systems and transfer files
ssh clients
windows platform
To use X11 port forwarding, Install Xming X Server for Windows first.
See instructions here
If X11 forwading is not needed (true for most cases), do not install it.To install a ssh client e.g. putty, please follow this instruction
Linux platform and mac platform
ssh -Y gowondaY snumber@clogin1.rcs.griffith.edu.au
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has been implemented on Griffith HPC as an additional layer of cybersecurity. You will receive this message
Authenticating using PingID...
Please use your pingid authenticator app to approve. After that you will receive this message:
PingID authentication completed successfully
PS: Further information about pingID can be found here.
Transferring files between your desktop and gowonda cluster
https://conf-ers.griffith.edu.au/display/GHCD/Transferring + files + between + your + desktop + and +gowonda+Griffith HPC cluster
Once you are on the system, have a look around. Your home directory is stored in:
/exports/home/<SNumber>
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when you run qstat from the command line, you will see your job's state within the queue. The following form lists the possible states and their descriptions
state code | State description |
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q | queued |
r | running |
Cluster Status
To find the current usage, run this command:
du -kh /export/home/snumber
du -kh /scratch/snumber
You may run the following command to check free resources on cluster at any moment:
qstatr
qhost
Reference:
1. ECDF. 20 July 2011. U of Edinburgh. 7 Oct. 2008 <www.ecdf.ed.ac.uk>