How to use Computing Server for graduate students (csgs2 system)
(2021/06/25) The operation of csgs1 system was discontinued by Thursday, June 24th. Thank you for your understanding.
(2021/05/21) The operation of new server (csgs2 system) was started.
As a general rule, csgs2 system is restarted once a month (early morning on the first day of every month) for system maintenance.
In addition, it may be stopped or restarted without notice due to security problems, urgent system maintenance or other unexpected accidents.
* For programs that calculate over a long period of time, take measures such as dividing the program size appropriately and outputting the progress to a file so that the calculation results are not lost.
It can be used with the same username and password as those of Educational Campus-wide Computing System (ECCS).
Ordinarily, the username and password of ECCS are the same as those of UTokyo Account.
It is available to students of Graduate School of Economics.
Computer configuration
hostname
csgs2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Dell PowerEdge R740
Processor Intel Xeon Gold 6240 2.6G, 18C / 36T, 10.4GT / s, 24.75Mcache * 2
Memory 192GB
NVIDIA Tesla V100 32G Passive GPU
It runs on Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8).
The basic usage of Linux / UNIX is not described here.
Key things to note
As a general rule, csgs2 is restarted once a month (early morning on the first day of every month) for system maintenance.
In addition, csgs2 may be stopped or restarted without notice due to security problems, urgent system maintenance or other unexpected accidents.
For programs that calculate over a long period of time, take measures such as dividing the program size appropriately and outputting the progress to a file so that the calculation results are not lost.
Please back up your calculated data, program data, etc. on your own responsibility.
(The csgs2 manager is not responsible for any data loss due to an accident or user's incorrect operation.)
The home directory of csgs2 is completely separate from that of ECCS.
To prevent accidents, the disk quota (up to about 100GB) is set for each home directory. Please contact the csgs2 manager (Email: csgs-info [at] e.u-tokyo.ac.jp) if you need more quota to calculate. However, in some cases it may not be possible to respond to your request. Thank you for your understanding.
In addition, the csgs2 system is not intend for file services, so please do not place any files other than those required for calculation. Thank you for your understanding. (The total disk space is not large enough for all users to use 100GB.)
Please enable your ECCS Cloud Email (**@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) so that you can read it. If the csgs2 manager needs to contact each user, user's ECCS Cloud Email is used.
Login
Only accessible within UTokyo campus network (including ECCS terminals and UTokyo Wi-Fi)
It is also possible to access from off-campus via UTokyo VPN.
Software for SSH2 protocol is required.
On ECCS terminal
In Mac OS environment of ECCS terminal, login with "ssh" command is available. In Remote Access Environment (Splashtop) of ECCS, it is available, too.
In "Terminal"
% ssh csgs2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp -l username
or
% ssh username@csgs2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
On X Window System, after starting XQuartz
% ssh csgs2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp -l username -Y
or
% ssh usename@csgs2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp -Y
On UTokyo Wi-Fi or via UTokyo VPN
Software for SSH2 protocol is required to access csgs2 in Windows PC connected to UTokyo Wi-Fi or UTokyo VPN.
Windows 10 1803 and later come standard with "ssh" command.
At command prompt etc, please enter the following.
% ssh usename@csgs2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
In addition, for example, Tera Term that supports SSH2 protocol and UTF-8 is also available.
After installation, please enter "csgs2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp" in the "Host:" field of the connection destination.
File transfer
"Scp" using SSH2 protocol is available for file transfer. Only accessible within UTokyo campus network (including ECCS terminals, UTokyo Wi-Fi and UTokyo VPN), as with login.
In Mac OS environment of ECCS terminal, "scp" & "sftp" commands and "Cyberduck" application are available.
In Windows PC connected to UTokyo Wi-Fi or UTokyo VPN, for example, WinSCP is available.
Available Statistical Packages
The following commercially available statistical packages are available.
Matlab R2024a
STATA/MP 18 (16core parallel version)
Ox Professional 8
Matlab R2024a
Available Toolboxes
The following Tool boxes are available.
Financial Toolbox
Instrument Control Toolbox
Optimization Toolbox
Parallel Computing Toolbox
Signal Processing Toolbox
Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox
Symbolic Math Toolbox
STATA/MP 18 (16core parallel version)
Ox Professional 8
Usage of free software
Some free software is available.
Usage of C Compiler & Fortran Compiler
The following compilers are available.
gcc 8.3.1
gfortran 8.3.1
As a numerical computing library, lapack & blas included in Red Hat AppStream / Codeready-builder are available. For gcc, linkable by adding -llapack -lblas options. Please click here for LAPACK usage example.
As a commercially available compiler, Intel Compiler is available.
(* Up to 2 concurrent users of Intel Compiler)
If you have any questions, please contact the csgs2 manager (Email: csgs-info [at] e.u-tokyo.ac.jp).