In publications and presentations that use results obtained on this system, please include the following acknowledgement: “This work utilizes resources supported by the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation program, grant #1725729, as well as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign”.
Use /home/<username> for basic stuff only, do not put any code/data here as the /home partition is very small. Quota: 50GB per User
Use /projects file system for all your data/code. Create a subfolder in this partition for your username and keep your stuff there. Quota: 2TB/10 million inodes per User
Use /scratch file system for ephemeral/transient data that is created during job runs that doesn't need to be kept long term. (And do not forget to remove it after the job is done and you no longer need it!)
You can use pip to install python packages within this environment.
To start a Jupyter notebook on hal-dgx
on hal-dgx:
source python3-virtualenv/bin/activate
pip install jupyter # this needs to be done only once
jupyter notebook --port=9999 # this will start the jupyter server on port 9999. Pick a different port if it fails to start
on your own computer:
# This opens a connection to the hal-dgx.ncsa.illinois.edu Jupyter server, and
# forwards any connection to port 8888 on the local machine to port 9999 on hal-dgx.ncsa.illinois.edu.
ssh -L 8888:localhost:9999 <userid>@hal-dgx.ncsa.illinois.edu
Finally, on your own computer, open web browser and point it to the address you see after running 'jupyter notebook' on hal-dgx, something like http://localhost:8888/?token=...
Make sure to replace the port in the URL with the port on your localhost