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Distributed filesystems such as Lustre are ideal for HPC and HTC environments. In these environments the typical workload consists of large files that have to be accessed from many compute nodes with very high bandwidth and/or low latency. Therefore these file...

public login services Access to the INCD clusters is only available to registered users. To use the HPC services users need to login via SSH into a front-end server. The login servers can be customized according to the user requirements (OS, Hardware resou...

Access to the INCD computing clusters is performed via SSH and requires the use of SSH keys for authentication. Authentication with passwords is not supported. Each SSH key pair has two components a public key that must be added to the hosts to be remotely acc...

Choose strong passwords - at least 9 characters long, a mixture of alphanumeric mixed case and symbol characters. The password should be completely different from the password you use on any other system. Never use the same password across different systems ...

In order to simplify SSH access to remote hosts we recommend INCD users to adopt the following recommendatios and configuration defaults. Enabling SSH agents and X11 forwarding Activate the forwarding of both SSH authentication credentials and X11 graphical ...

INCD is open to all academic and scientific researchers and institutions. In order to use our services please go to the INCD portal and follow the instructions there. For guidance and further information about the access conditions see the FAQ List warning P...

Access to INCD infrastructure is available only to registered users. Access to login machines may be filtered by IP address of origin. During the registration process you may be asked to provide your IP address in order to enable remote access. Access to virt...

At INCD the default max elapsed time for the queues is 72h. The values for all queues can be consulted here In case you cannot parallelize your job (split one single job into multiple parallel jobs) you can use job dependencies. In this case you creat...

The INCD filesystems are based on the Lustre shared filesystem which is mounted in the compute nodes and in the submission/login nodes. Lustre is mostly suited to the storage of large/huge files. For more specific information regarding the Lustre deployment ...

To prevent storage misuse and problems resulting from filesystems becoming full, INCD has implemented the following data usage policies and limits. File system Hard Limit Exceeded /home Once quota or number of files exceeded, new files will not be all...

NOTE Please note that INCD Lustre storage is not designed for small files. Attempting to store or retrieve files less than a few megabytes will result in extremely poor performance for all users. If you wish to store lots of small files to massdata, please u...

Users are allowed to change the default permissions file permissions in all folders they own. The default access rights to INCD filesystem is the folllowing: /home All files under /home are only accessible by the user. /data All files under /data/unixgr...

Small tutorial on how to install and run miniconda on the HPC clusters. 1. Login into your login machine 2. Download Miniconda into your local home $ wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh 3. Execute Miniconda $ ch...

The INCD software is managed using a tool called modules. This tool allows the user to load the correct environment (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc) for each specific software package. The main commands are explained in the next sections. List of available Softwa...

There are a few options for local users installation locations as showed on the next table, create appropriate paths bellow the base directory. Site Base Directory Comments INCD-Lisbon /home/GROUP/USERNAME INCD-Lisbon /data/GROUP/USERNAME ...

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List of Queues INCD-Lisbon cluster (cirrus.a.incd.pt) Name Jobs max elapsed time access Memory Max #cores[1] Comments gpu 72h everyone 2 GB/Core 16 queue for GPU resources hpc 72h everyone 8 GB/Core 64 default queue fct 72h reser...

INCD is required to provide evidence of the work made possible through the usage of the infrastructure services. The metric of success is the scientific publications produced through the usage of the INCD services. Please help us to continue delivering servic...

Journal Paper with direct contribution Quarkonium production at the LHC: A data-driven analysis of remarkably simple experimental patterns P. Faccioli, C. Lourenço, M. Araújo, V. Knünz, I. Krätschmer, J. Seixas Phys.Lett. B773 (2017) 476-486 10.1016/j.physle...