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-**Getting Started** 
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-This section shows how to login to the the system and submit a basic job on the cluster. If you do no have an account already, please apply for one by following the link [[applying_for_an_account|]] 
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-**Logging In** 
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-To connect to the cluster, ssh to ranger.zamren.zm using the username and password you registered during account application. Once you login, you will be asked to reset the password. 
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-**Environmental Variables** 
-To see the variables in your environment execute the command: env 
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-**Modules** 
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-The Environment Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user’s environment via modulefiles. To see available modules type the command 
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-module avail 
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-----------------/path/toModules------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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-cmake/3.5.0     FFTW/3.3.4      gmp/4.3.2       gromacs/5.1.0   mpich/3.1       mvapich/2.1     openmpi/1.10.1 
-FFTW/2.1.5      gcc/4.4.7       gotoblas2/    gsl/1.9         mpich/3.2       openblas/0.2.15 
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-**Submitting a Job** 
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-The cluster uses [[http://www.schedmd.com|slurm]] for scheduling and resource management. Key commands to view the status of the cluster are 
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-**sinfo** reports the state of partitions and nodes managed by SLURM. It has a wide variety of filtering, sorting, and formatting options 
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-**squeue** reports the state of jobs or job steps. It has a wide variety of filtering, sorting, and formatting options. By default, it reports the running jobs in priority order and then the pending jobs in priority order. 
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