Tutorials

For new users

Linux tutorials

• Bash and Linux commands
• Linux permissions

Cluster tutorials

• Getting started with ETH clusters
  • Requesting an account
  • Accessing the clusters
  • Data management
  • Setting up your environment
  • Using the batch system
  • Third-party applications
• Getting started with GPUs
• Compiling an application
• Slurm/LSF Submission Line Advisor
• Parallel computing
• Rendering without display

For advanced users

Debugging and profiling

• Profiling your binary
• Debugging your code

Batch system

• Transition from LSF to Slurm
• LSF to Slurm quick reference

The following articles are currently being adapted from LSF to Slurm; please use with caution:

• Job chaining (dependency conditions)
• Job arrays
• Hybrid (MPI+OpenMP) jobs
• GNU Parallel
• Node allocation for parallel jobs
• Working in multiple shareholder groups

Storage

• Too much space is used by your output files
• Using the local scratch
• Best practices guide for Lustre file system

Reference data

• NCBI BLAST databases
• Reference genomes

For software maintainers

• Setting up a software stack for a research group
• Creating a local module directory
• Unpacking RPM packages in users space

For IT Support Groups (ISG)

• Setting up a custom ETH group for a cluster shareholder
• Exporting an NFS file system to Euler
• Cluster IP ranges

Software tutorials

Centrally installed applications

• Turbomole
• Comsol MATLAB LiveLink
• Comsol files in the home directory
• Using Gaussian on Euler
• Using MATLAB's Parallel Computing Toolkit

Software as a service

• Using the CLC genomics service
• Offloading MATLAB jobs to the cluster