Overview
These are “End User Documents” for the Wash U Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) Compute Management service.
Product Stage: Early Access
Assumptions
If you are reading this document, it is assumed that you:
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Have been assigned a Wash U WUSTL Key Identity,
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Are or work for Research Faculty or Staff,
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Are on local Wash U computer networks, have access to the Wash U Medical School VPN or the Danforth VPN.
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Acknowledge that all users of the Compute Service are expected to have read and comply with the User Agreement.
Contents
Before You Get Started
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The following pages go over some of the requirements necessary before you are able to start using the RIS Compute Platform.
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This is the user agreement that all users must agree to in order to use the RIS Compute Platform.
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Below you can find more information about activating compute services.
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- Below you can find information about some of the compute policies.
Getting Up And Running
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An introduction to the compute platform and how to run a job is contained within the Quick Start. It is recommended that new users begin with this tutorial upon activating compute services.
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The FAQ provides answers to some of the commonly asked questions users have.
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Compute FAQ
- How do I get help with the RIS Compute Service?
- Where can I find RIS Compute Documentation?
- Where are the RIS computing services physically located?
- How do I Obtain an account?
- How do I change my password?
- How do I log into the Compute environment?
- How do I make it so I can log in without having to use my password?
- How do I launch jobs in the HPC environment?
- How should I name my files and directories?
- Is there a way to summarize usage statistics?
- What does it mean to have a “Compute Condo(minium)”
- Are there general access computing resources?
- What is the difference between the general and the general-interactive queues?
- What does the Compute Service price include?
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How much space is in my
$HOMEdirectory? - Why is this limited to 10G? Can I have more?
- Why am I getting a Disk I/O error?
- How much space is in my Storage Allocation?
- How do I share files in my storage with colleagues?
- What’s the best way for me to transfer data?
- How do I request more resources for my job?
- Does RIS offer Docker containers or a repository for them?
- Why can’t I connect to my noVNC image?
- Software Debugging Policy
Moving Beyond the Basics
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Open On Demand (OOD) is a web based graphical user interface (GUI) for managing and monitoring jobs on the Compute Platform.
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The compute topics section contains more in-depth documentation on using the RIS Compute Platform, as well as applications and tools available.
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The compute workshops section contains information and documentation about the workshops that RIS has developed.
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These are accessible to all users and contain useful information.
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Compute Workshops
- RIS Compute Seminars from Fall 2021
- RIS Compute Seminars from April 2020
- NVIDIA Workshop - September 2020
- RIS Compute 101
- RIS Compute 102
- RIS Compute 103
- RIS Compute 104
- RIS Docker Workshop
- Docker Basics: Building, Tagging, & Pushing A Custom Docker Image
- Installing Python Packages In Your Docker Container
- RIS R Workshop
- RIS Software Development Workshop
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This section details information about maintaining your data spaces (home, storage, scratch) from within the compute environment.