Useful Information and Commands

Owned by Jay Morton
Last updated: Oct 19, 2020 by Marie Desir
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  • Most users will use Putty to ssh into the HPC using their Poly email address and password. Usually going to Login.hpc.lab (unless a special environment is needed, in which case the user/s will be given the address after it is created.) 

  • Submitting jobs to the LSF (Use bsub) 

    1. Compile the hello_world example code provided by default  

      1. /opt/ibm/platform_mpi/bin/mpicc -o hello_world.exe /opt/ibm/platform_mpi/help/hello_world.c  

    2. Submit a job through LSF to test the message passing  

      1. bsub -n 10 -R "span[ptile=1]" -o %J.out "/opt/ibm/platform_mpi/bin/mpirun -lsf -vapi /home/(Username)/hello_world.exe; wait"  

    3. Check the output of the %J.out file to verify results 

  • For the EmberDB cluster please ssh into ember.hpc.lab using your FLPoly username and password. 

    • Once connected use  

      • Mysql –u (your username) -p –h ember-db 

        • It will then ask for your FLPoly password.