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 presentation below, using the menu on the left, or typing a query in the search box.

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 SciNet User Tutorial Tutorials and Manuals Essentials GPC: General Purpose Cluster TCS: Tightly Coupled System GPU nodes of the Accellerator Research Cluster Software and libraries Data management FAQ (frequently asked questions) Acknowledging SciNet	What's New On The Wiki The P7 Linux Cluster is ready for use (northrup). HPSS, which will expand SciNet's storage capacity, is in its pilot phase (pinto/knecht). The Acceptable Use Policy has been added and included into the Essentials page (rzon, Jun 17). A link to a 2009 INRIA Technical Report on existing linear algebra libraries for C++ was added to the Math section of the Tutorial page (rzon, Jun 14). Slides of Pierre de Buyl's TechTalk on f2py: Fortran and Python (rzon, Jun 8). 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