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You have to select "Astro" as your group. '''Remember to sign the rules-of-conduct-form''' | You have to select "Astro" as your group. '''Remember to sign the rules-of-conduct-form''' | ||
* | * If you have received the old welcome e-mail without a link to this wiki, the info is not correct. You should never login to fend0X.hpc.ku.dk, but instead use the Tycho-specific frontends called astro0X.hpc.ku.dk (see [[Hardware]] for an up to date list of available frontends / Analysis hardware). | ||
* Set up an SSH key pair for secure passwordless login (see [[Accessing Tycho]]) | * Set up an SSH key pair for secure passwordless login (see [[Accessing Tycho]]) | ||
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* Consider changing <code>umask 077</code> to <code>umask 027</code> in <code>$HOME/.bashrc</code> to allow collaborators and/or your supervisor read access to your files when logged in to the cluster. | * Consider changing <code>umask 077</code> to <code>umask 027</code> in <code>$HOME/.bashrc</code> to allow collaborators and/or your supervisor read access to your files when logged in to the cluster. | ||
* If you are going to travel, but want to continue working on Tycho while you are travelling, you need to set up a Dynamic Firewall '''before''' | * If you are going to travel, but want to continue working on Tycho while you are travelling, you need to set up a Dynamic Firewall '''before''' traveling. You can do so by following the detailed instructions [https://hpc.ku.dk/documentation/otp.html: here] | ||
* You can set up e.g. Visual Studio Code for remote development for transparent editing of files on the cluster. See [[Visual Studio Remote Development]] | * You can set up e.g. Visual Studio Code for remote development for transparent editing of files on the cluster. See [[Visual Studio Remote Development]] | ||
* Every user has a 50 GB quota for the home folder (<code>/groups/astro/yourusername</code>. Whenever you are going to be working with large amounts of data, considering using the <code>/lustre/astro/yourusername</code> directory. This scratch folder is residing on a ZFS based high performance Lustre filesystem with dedicated hardware for our group. No quotas are enforced and the total space (disregarding the transparent compression) is 1300 TB. | * Every user has a 50 GB quota for the home folder (<code>/groups/astro/yourusername</code>. Whenever you are going to be working with large amounts of data, considering using the <code>/lustre/astro/yourusername</code> directory. This scratch folder is residing on a ZFS based high performance Lustre filesystem with dedicated hardware for our group. No quotas are enforced and the total space (disregarding the transparent compression) is 1300 TB. | ||
Latest revision as of 08:14, 15 January 2024
To start using Tycho, please follow these steps
- Get a user account by contacting a sponsor and signing up at
https://hpc.ku.dk/account.html
You have to select "Astro" as your group. Remember to sign the rules-of-conduct-form
- If you have received the old welcome e-mail without a link to this wiki, the info is not correct. You should never login to fend0X.hpc.ku.dk, but instead use the Tycho-specific frontends called astro0X.hpc.ku.dk (see Hardware for an up to date list of available frontends / Analysis hardware).
- Set up an SSH key pair for secure passwordless login (see Accessing Tycho)
- Add
module load astroto you$HOME/.bashrcfile to have access to all the custom installed software. You can read more about themodulecommand.
- Consider changing
umask 077toumask 027in$HOME/.bashrcto allow collaborators and/or your supervisor read access to your files when logged in to the cluster.
- If you are going to travel, but want to continue working on Tycho while you are travelling, you need to set up a Dynamic Firewall before traveling. You can do so by following the detailed instructions here
- You can set up e.g. Visual Studio Code for remote development for transparent editing of files on the cluster. See Visual Studio Remote Development
- Every user has a 50 GB quota for the home folder (
/groups/astro/yourusername. Whenever you are going to be working with large amounts of data, considering using the/lustre/astro/yourusernamedirectory. This scratch folder is residing on a ZFS based high performance Lustre filesystem with dedicated hardware for our group. No quotas are enforced and the total space (disregarding the transparent compression) is 1300 TB.