HPCC guidelines

Access methods

You have several options for accessing the CSDMS cluster. You can use:

Secure SHell (SSH) for direct access
Transferring files via SSH scp or sftp
The Component Modeling Tool

SSH - Secure SHell

SSH encrypts transmissions between remote computers and secure computers. Use SSH for local and remote access to beach.colorado.edu.

To use SSH for remote computing on beach, you must have SSH software installed on your local computer. Your SSH client must be compatible with that installed on beach. If you do not have SSH installed on your local computer, see our SSH product page for names and sources of some available SSH software.

When you are familiar with SSH and have a client installed on your local computer, you will be able to SSH and/or scp to beach.

There are both free and commercial versions of ssh available for many platforms. For Unix/Linux-based systems (including Mac OS X) the most common ssh software is OpenSSH. OpenSSH is free and can be downloaded as either source or binaries. Microsoft Windows users also have several choices for ssh client support, including:

Transferring files

Using secure file transfer protocol (sftp)

sftp is an interactive file transfer program similar to FTP. sftp performs all operations over an encrypted SSH transport. It may also use many features of SSH, such as public key authentication and compression. sftp connects and logs into the specified host, then enters an interactive command mode.

From within sftp, all of the normal ftp commands are present. sftp does not support anonymous logins. A user account is required on the remote end.

For usage information, see the man page for sftp on the computer from which you are issuing the command.

Copying files using secure copy (scp)

The secure copy command (scp) works with secure shell (SSH).

For usage information, see the man page for scp on the computer from which you are issuing the command.

Copy a file from beach to your local computer

> scp your_username@beach.colorado.edu:foo.txt /some/local/directory

Copy a file from your local computer to beach

> scp bar.txt your_username@beach.colorado.edu:/some/remote/directory

Copy a directory from beach to your local computer

> scp -r your_username@beach.colorado.edu:foo /some/local/directory/bar

Copying files using rsync

Environment modules

HPCC Env Modules

Submit a job

HPCC_usage_rules

Disk space quota

On Home: 5Gb pp.

On the rest: Please be respectful with the amount of disk space you are using. Apart from 'Home' there are so far no limitations set up per user.