Gabriele Bellucci

v.1 2024

The Cluster Manual is still under construction, so many sections might contain errors/mistake; please bear with us and feel free to contribute!

For questions, please use the discussion forums on each page of the cluster manual. To report any issues or errors with the cluster manual, email gabriele.bellucci@rhul.ac.uk.

~~TOC|Table of Content~~ Getting Started with HPC on psychp01 6 First Steps on psychp01 7 Linux QuickStart 9 New on Linux systems? 9 Common Commands 9 Text editing in command line 11 Cluster access 13 VPN connection 13 Log in with SSH 13 GUI access 15 Running analyses on psychp01 17 Transferring files to/from psychp01 18 Transferring data 18 Transferring code 18 File Transfer Clients 18 Bash files and Batch system 23 Dos and don'ts 23 Batch System 23 Creating a job script 23 How to pass command-line parameters to the job script 24 Software on psychp01 25 Advanced SLURM 26 Running jobs 31 Job Blueprint 32 R example 35 Python example 36 MATLAB example 37 Interactive Jobs 40 Starting an interactive job 40 Keeping interactive jobs alive 40 Installing VPN Client – GlobalProtect 42 Frequently Asked Questions 46