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This scientific computing cluster contains shared computing resources of SLAC and can be used by our group members.
How to get an account: https://s3df.slac.stanford.edu/#/accounts-and-access
Log-in
You have to get a user account. Connect via ssh.
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There are interactive nodes like "iana" that allow you to log in and just run programs from the command line.
The theory group has purchased two interactive nodes, which should have arrived in fall 2023 but are still not online.
Their number of cores is equivalent to the previous existing capacity of the combined EPPTheory01-03.
In the meantime, we were provided with interactive nodes (with fewer cores) which we can use the public iana nodes..
You should be able to log into the following machines and use them for your computations.
sdfiana019
sdfiana020
To get to them, first log into the log-in node and then to the specific compute nodes.
Step one: ssh username@s3dflogin.slac.stanford.edu
Step two: ssh sdfiana020Submitting Jobs
Second, the batch farm can be used to submit jobs via SLURM.
Here, we are benefitting from shared resources that are owned by others but are currently idle.
We can submit our jobs to the farm but we have very low priority to run given we have no purchased resources ourselves.
Furthermore, our jobs will get interrupted if higher priority users need resources that we are currently using.
Nevertheless, this works quite well.
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