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MFCF Grad Session 2016
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Agenda• Introduction - 3rd Annual Grad Halloween session
• Help Centre and requests • Department Grad reps
• Collaboration projects
• Graduate Student Computing
• LaTeX/Mendeley
• Math Linux environment
• Group discussions with technicians • Mac minis • Microsoft Remote Desktop to access Windows - Jim
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MFCF Help Centre•MC 3017 x36323
•Help with Mac minis - reimaging, admin access
•Laptop connections - wired connections
•Printing, accounts, Nexus passwords…
•Grad rep - meetings once a term
•communication between MFCF and grads regarding computing - new developments
•Request Tracker
•Lynda.com - online training
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Grad collaboration projects
•collaborate projects other grads or supervisors
•Post projects
•Browse projects
https://uwaterloo.ca/math-faculty-computing-facility/grad-collaboration-projects
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Graduate Student Computing
Marek Stastna Director of MFCF
Associate Dean, Computing
• including Compute Canada • SHARCNET
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Mendeley/LaTeXPresentation and demonstration
by
Justin Shaw, Applied Mathematics
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Linux environment
Brief overview of Linux machines: • types of Linux machines • aliases linux.math, biglinux.math and fastlinux.math
• how to access them • how to save/retrieve your files • what they can be used for
Robyn Landers
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fastlinuxWhat is fastlinux?:
•four computers with fastest cpus, but only 2 cores per machine
•low core count
•not a large amount of memory
What is fastlinux for?:
•jobs where processor speed is most important
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biglinuxWhat is biglinux?:
• three computers, each with 4 high-core-count CPUs and large memory
• cpu125.math, cpu131.math and cpu139.math (cpu139 is newest, Xeon rather than Opteron)
What is biglinux for?:
• very last or multi-threaded jobs
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GPU Server• gpu01.student.math • two 14-core CPUs, 128GB RAM • four NVIDIA TESLA K80 GPUs • CUDA and other parallel GPU tools • K80: ~5000 cores, ~2.9 teraFLOPS DP
• authenticate using Nexus password • home directory is undergrad file server
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Rocks Cluster
• MPI programming across multiple machines • a cluster of eight two-CPU compute nodes • head node is mf-hpc.math.private • authenticate using Nexus password • account needs be enabled - contact [email protected]
• home directory is research file server • submit jobs using SGE queue manager
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Access Linux using ssh
• You will need: • [email protected] • password: same as your email password
• From Mac mini - Go -> Utilities -> Terminal • From Windows - putty or winssh • Linux: open up a terminal window and type:
• ssh [email protected] • you will be prompted for your password
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How to save and back up your files
• Use Virtual private network when accessing files from off campus
• files.math icon on the Mac mini
• storing files on Math file server:
• Mac: smb://files.math.uwaterloo.ca
• Windows standalone: \\files.math.uwaterloo.ca\<UWuserid>
• Windows remote desktop: windows.math.uwaterloo.ca P: drive
• Linux: ssh to linux.math, biglinux.math or fastlinux.math
• https://uwaterloo.ca/math-faculty-computing-facility/remote-access
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Why use the Linux servers
• Math applications/IDEs • Maple, Matlab, R, RStudio, Julia, CPLEX, Sage,
NumPy, SciPy • compilers and numerical libraries (gcc, GSL) • parallel tools on biglinux (OpenMP, MPI) • lots more memory than your laptop or Mac mini • long running jobs