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Getting Started

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

Logging In

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.

Environmental Variables To see the variables in your environment execute the command: env

Modules

The Environment Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user’s environment via modulefiles. To see available modules type the command

module avail

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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 gotoblas2/2 gsl/1.9 mpich/3.2 openblas/0.2.15

Submitting a Job

The cluster uses slurm for scheduling and resource management. Key commands to view the status of the cluster are

sinfo reports the state of partitions and nodes managed by SLURM. It has a wide variety of filtering, sorting, and formatting options 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.