SciNet User Support Library

Welcome to the SciNet User Support wiki. Here you will find up-to-date manuals put together by SciNet staff and users, as well as links to external resources, to help you make use of SciNet resources for computational scientific discovery. Navigate using the links in the grid-style presentation below, or using the menu on the left.

System Status System status can now be found at docs.scinet.utoronto.ca Mon 23 Apr 2018 GPC-compute is decommissioned, GPC-storage available until 30 May 2018 Thu 18 Apr 2018 Niagara system will undergo an upgrade to its Infiniband network between 9am and 12pm, should be transparent to users, however there is a chance of network interruption. Fri 13 Apr 2018 HPSS system will be down for a few hours on Mon, Apr/16, 9AM, for hardware upgrades, in preparation for the eventual move to the Niagara side. Tue 10 Apr 2018 Niagara is open to users. Wed 4 Apr 2018 We are very close to the production launch of Niagara, the new system installed at SciNet. While the RAC allocation year officially starts today, April 4/18, the Niagara system is still undergoing some final tuning and software updates, so the plan is to officially open it to users on next week. All active GPC users will have their accounts, $HOME, and $PROJECT, transferred to the new Niagara system. Those of you who are new to SciNet, but got RAC allocations on Niagara, will have your accounts created and ready for you to login. We are planning an extended Intro to SciNet/Niagara session, available in person at our office, and webcast on Vidyo and possibly other means, on Wednesday April 11 at noon EST.
QuickStart Guides Login essentials GPC: General Purpose Cluster TCS: Tightly Coupled System Data management Software and libraries Job scheduling system (Moab) Performance primer, and performance tools for GPC and TCS Tutorials and Manuals FAQ (frequently asked questions) Acknowledging SciNet	What's New On The Wiki CPMD 3.13.2 installed on the GPC (dgruner, 5 October) The diskUsage command has been enhanced, and now you may get information on how much your usage has changed over a certain period (with the -de option).(pinto, 30 September) Slides, source code from one-day Intro to Practical Parallel Programming Course (22 Sept) posted on the Tutorials and Manuals page (ljdursi, 1 October) ramdisk in combination with GAMESS (but note the disk and memory requirements on the job!) (dgruner, 13 September) Tips on how to use ramdisk in combination with GAMESS (but note the disk and memory requirements on the job!) (dgruner, 13 September) Intro to SciNet slides (rzon, 10 September) IntelMPI 3.x has been deprecated (ljdursi, 10 September) TechTalk 'Parallel File System and IO' slides (rzon, 8 September) NWChem 5.1.1 installed on the GPC (dgruner, 3 September) Previous new stuff can be found in the What's new archive.
User-Supplied Content Share your expertise with the SciNet Community! Running specific codes on SciNet machines Tips for performance or convenience on SciNet machines Running serial batch jobs (including GNU parallel) Using the ramdisk on SciNet's GPC User-space perl modules Packing up large data sets and putting them on HPSS Remote batch