FAQs

Frequently (And Not So Frequently) Asked Questions

These FAQ's take a deeper dive into topics directly related to server based computational issues and challenges. The main OIT page has a number of general FAQ's and tools for general support.

Before you get started:

Getting started:

When publishing your results:

Please acknowledge PSU Research Computing resources in published papers containing results generated in our systems by adding this text to your article:

This work was made possible in part thanks to Research Computing at Portland State University and its HPC resources acquired through NSF grant numbers 2019216 and 1624776.

General Linux FAQs

- - Using Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) in 15 Minutes (YouTube)
  - Moving data between local and remote machines
  - Moving large amounts of data with Globus and the Data Transfer Nodes
  - Using Python (& managing environments)
  - Interactive Sessions (with a GUI)

Linux HPC - SLURM scheduler

- - How to use Coeus HPC Cluster
  - Cluster partitions
  - SLURM Parallelism
  - Multiple Jobs on One Compute Node
  - What's a job array? (Automate many similar jobs/many nodes)
  - Job Performance
  - Issues with your job on SLURM?
  - SLURM salloc examples (managing Interactive Jobs)