Access to the Flex cluster requires connection to Zoology VPN, your Zoology Account, and is done with ssh and scp. Connections and file transfers are done via Zoology main server at files.zoology.ubc.ca.
Please note
- Cluster storage is not backed up!
- Treat it as scratch space
- Only data needed for active jobs should be kept there
General steps to using the cluster
- transfer data you would like to use to your project folder on the cluster. Transfers to/from Flex are done via the "flex" subfolder in your home directory
- open up the terminal application
- type
scp myfile my_zoology_account@files.zoology.ubc.ca:flex/my_project_folderfollowed by your Zoology password
- ssh over to the main server
ssh my_zoology_account@files.zoology.ubc.cafollowed by your Zoology password
- ssh to a node of the cluster you want (there are 5 nodes on Flex cluster)
ssh flexfor the head node- Other nodes can be accessed from the head node either by
ssh mank02...ssh mank05
- use
htopcommand to see current load, try starting your jobs on the least busy node - Scientific software packages located in /Linux