Welcome to PDC Support!

This section provides links for help with frequently-raised issues when using PDC resources. If you cannot find the information you need in the official documentation, or through a global web search please see Contact Support below. We are always glad to help, and we also appreciate suggestions for improving our documentation.

Quick start guide

• Quick Start
  • Brief description
  • How to log in
  • Storage
  • Transfer of files
  • The Lmod module system
  • The Cray programming environment
  • Build your first program
  • How to use EasyBuild
  • Submit a batch job to the queue
  • References

Introduction

• Introduction
  • Basic Information
    • Clusters, nodes, processors, and cores
    • Deciding whether you need PDC for your work
    • Who may use PDC’s HPC services
    • Account and Time Allocation
    • How much resources will be needed: corehours
  • Clusters at PDC
  • Basic Linux for new HPC users
    • Using commands in the shell
    • Useful Shell commands
    • Further information
  • Glossary

Getting Access

• Getting Access
  • Getting compute time
  • Apply for a new Time Allocation via NAISS
  • Joining an existing Time Allocation
  • Check your existing Time Allocation
  • Applying for an account
    • Apply via a SUPR account
    • Apply via PDC webpage
    • Request class access

How to Login

• How to log in with SSH keys
  • How SSH key pairs work
  • How to create SSH key pairs
  • Authentication process details
  • In the login portal
  • Log in to PDC resources
  • Users which do not have a SUPR account
  • Configuring ssh keys and kerberos login
  • Debugging
• Generating SSH keys
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Windows
• How to log in with kerberos
  • General information about Kerberos
  • Login nodes
  • Step by step Login tutorial
  • Troubleshooting login problems
• Interactive HPC at PDC
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started with Interactive HPC
  • Authentication - ThinLinc Client
  • Launching Interactive Jobs
  • Launching Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebook
  • Launching Interactive jobs from Terminal
  • Disconnect or Logout

How to Run Jobs

• How to Run Jobs
  • How jobs are scheduled
  • How to submit jobs
  • Dardel compute nodes
  • Dardel partitions
• Job Statistics
  • Viewing information about account usage
  • Specifying what information is shown on the PDC system usage page
  • To find information about a particular project account
  • Displaying account usage information as a graph or table
  • Viewing usage information per day or per month
  • Viewing usage information for specific PDC systems
  • To clear all current selections

Available Software

• How to use module to load different softwares into your environment
  • Cray Programming Environment
  • What softwares are installed
  • What softwares are present in my environment
  • How to manage software into your environment
  • What parameters are set by a specific module
• Instructions for using singularity at PDC
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Installation of singularity
  • How to use singularity on your local computer
  • How to remote build a singularity image on the cluster
  • Running singularity images at PDC
• Available Software

Data Management

• Data Management
  • Where to store my data
  • Klemming
    • Storage areas
    • Performance considerations
    • Managing access permissions
  • Swestore
    • Some important consideration before using Swestore
    • Swestore-dCache access from PDC transfer node
    • Security considerations when using rclone
  • File transfer
    • Using scp/rsync
    • Some important consideration before using Swestore
    • Swestore-dCache access from PDC transfer node
    • Security considerations when using rclone
    • Using rclone to access OneDrive
    • Nodes for file operations
  • PDC environmental variables

Software Development

• Compilers and libraries
  • The Cray Programming Environment
  • Compiler wrappers
  • Cray scientific and math libraries
  • Cray message passing toolkit
  • Compiler and linker flags
  • Build examples
  • References
• Building for AMD GPUs
  • The AMD ROCm development platform
  • Compiler and linker flags environment variables
  • Build and run examples
  • References, general information
• Allinea Forge
  • ARM (Allinea) map
• Downloadable example for compiling and submitting
• References
• Installing software using EasyBuild
  • For local installations
  • How is EasyBuild configured
  • How to install software using EasyBuild
  • dry-run installation of software
  • How to search for software using EasyBuild
  • How install dependent software
  • How to build easyconfig files
  • Final results
• Installing software using Spack
  • Setting the environment
  • Finding and listing available software
  • Installing software using spack
  • Installing non-downloadable software
  • Garbage collection
  • How to execute your software

Industry

• Practical information for industry projects
  • Scania

Courses

• Practical information for courses
  • General instructions for PDC courses
  • PRACE Deep Learning workshop at PDC
  • Introduction to PDC
  • PDC Summer School
  • PDC/PRACE workshop “HPC Tools for the Modern Era”

PDC Blog

• PDC Blog

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  • Filesystem
  • Kerberos
  • Login
  • Running
  • Other

Contact Support

• Contact Support