Draft:UFRC Help and Documentation Testy

Welcome to the University of Florida Research Computing Help and Documentation site. General information, announcements, and purchase request forms are on our main web site. The information here is focused on particular applications, services, and usage examples. Provide Feedback.

For New Users

Getting Started : This page is intended to help new clients get started on HiPerGator.
Training, Events, Videos: Material for learning HPG, including AI
New user training: Expands upon the content provided in the HiPerGator Account Training in Coursera
Interactive Development and Testing: available options for interactive or small-scale testing work.
Practical Storage Use: Here we discuss practical use of the various shared storage systems on HiPerGator.

Help

How To Get Help
Submit a Support Request
AI Help: resources for understanding/improving ML tasks.

Scheduler

SLURM Commands: useful list includes submitting, checking, and cancelling jobs.
Account and QOS Limits Under SLURM: how HPG prioritizes jobs/resources
Big Memory Partition: RC's big memory servers and how use them.
Available Node Features: how to specify hardware such as processor families/models.
SLURM Job Script Examples
SLURM Job Arrays: best way to submit a number of identical jobs

Transfer Data - Detailed resource on moving data to/from HPG

Globus: best method if your data files are large, >1GB
Samba Access: most commonly used by UFRC clients for drive mapping to HiPerGator filesystems from their desktops.

Access

GPU Access
Multi-Factor Authentication: How to access HPG with Duo.
SSH Multiplexing: allows multiple connections to HPG without using Duo for every one.
Blocked Accounts: how to know if/why you are blocked.

Interfaces

Jupyter (Python, R): web-based development environment for teaching/testing/developing code.
Galaxy Genomics Framework: web-based framework for biological computing.
OnDemand (Matlab, RStudio,...): web interface for starting and attaching to HiPerGator jobs.
Conda and Jupyter Kernels
How To Run GUI Apps

Software and Reference Data

Installed Applications: List of HPG programs.
HiPerGator ufrc Tools: various internal/external tools in the ufrc module.
Environment Modules System: explains RC's use of modules for containing programs.
Reference Data: repository of reference data accessible to everyone, including AI data.
- AI Reference Datasets