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Step 1. Apply for a User Account
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By clicking "Submit Form", you only complete the FIRST form, please click "HERE" to complete the second form.
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New user needs to set up his/her DUO device via https://duo.security.ncsa.illinois.edu/.
If there has any problem, See https://go.ncsa.illinois.edu/2fa for common questions and answers. Send an email to help+duo@ncsa.illinois.edu for additional help.
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New user needs to log on HAL system for the first time with SSH to initialize his/her accounts.
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ssh <username>@hal.ncsa.illinois.edu |
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ssh <username>@hal-login2.ncsa.illinois.edu |
Interactive jobs
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You start tmux on the login node before you get an interactive slurm session with srun and then do all the work in it.
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tmux |
In case of a disconnect, you simply reconnect to the login node and attach to the tmux session again by typing:
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tmux list-session tmux attach -t <session_id> |
Batch jobs
submit jobs with original slurm command
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#!/bin/bash #SBATCH --job-name="demo" #SBATCH --output="demo.%j.%N.out" #SBATCH --error="demo.%j.%N.err" #SBATCH --partition=gpu #SBATCH --time=4:00:00 #SBATCH --nodes=1 #SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=16 #SBATCH --sockets-per-node=1 #SBATCH --cores-per-socket=4 #SBATCH --threads-per-core=4 #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1200 |
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Batch jobs
#SBATCH --export=ALL
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:v100:1
srun hostname |
submit jobs with slurm wrapper suite
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#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name="demo"
#SBATCH --output="demo.%j.%N.out"
#SBATCH --error="demo.%j.%N.err"
#SBATCH --partition=gpux1
#SBATCH --time=4
srun hostname |
submit a job with multiple taskssubmit job with
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#!/bin/bash #SBATCH --job-name="demo" #SBATCH --output="demo.%j.%N.out" #SBATCH --error="demo.%j.%N.err" #SBATCH --partition=gpux1 #SBATCH --time=4 srun hostnamempirun -n 4 hostname & mpirun -n 4 hostname & mpirun -n 4 hostname & mpirun -n 4 hostname & wait |
For detailed SLURM on HAL information, please refer to Job management with SLURM.
Step 4. Log on HAL System with HAL OnDemand
New users need to log in to the HAL system via "ssh hal.ncsa.illinois.edu" first to initialize their home folders. After new users initialization, HAL OnDemand can be accessed through
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https://hal-ondemand.ncsa.illinois.edu:8888 |
For detailed HAL OnDemand information, please refer to Getting started with HAL OnDemand.