Description in progress as of 2023-0102-2721.
This page gives a very brief introduction to SLAC's new S3DF (SLAC Shared Scientific Data Facility) cluster to help you get started. We assume you already have a Unix account and your main intent is to run the Fermitools/Fermipy.
See the main S3DF documentation for detailed information about how to log in, use the the SLURM batch system, and so on. . Specify --partition roma,milano.
Basically, ssh to s3dflogin.slac.stanford.edu and from there ssh to iana (no .slac.stanford.edu) to do actual interactive work. The login nodes are not meant for doing analysis or accessing data. Of course, real computational intensive tasks are meant for the batch system and not the interactive nodes either.
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- Your home directory is in weka (/sdf/home/<first letter of our userid>/<your userid>) with 30 GB of space. This space is backed up and is where code, etc., should go. This is also true for conda environments.
- We have group space at /sdf/group/fermi/ which will include shared software, as well as Fermi-supplied user (i.e., on top of your home directory) and group space. You can find it in /sdf/group/fermi/u/<you>.
- after gpfs is retired in late 2023, this is where your larger user space will be.
- We're still providing additional user space from the old cluster, available on request via the slac-helplist mailing list. It is not backed up. This space is natively gpfs. Once enabled, it will be available under: /gpfs/slac/fermi/fs2/u/<your_dir>.
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