What is the hostname of the cluster?
What is the hostname of the file transfer node of the cluster?
Important Quality of Service(QoS) Notice
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We have seen from time to time loads of the headnode resulting from jobs that should be directed to the compute nodes. Often this is just a user mistake, but results in lower quality of service to others trying to prepare work for the compute nodes. It is policy that all significant research codes and related work be submitted to run on the compute nodes. In order to help promote the best possible quality of service, effective 6-24-2013, any running jobs on the head node deemed load producing and excessive will be terminated without notice. This will help insure the best possible responsiveness of headnode resources for everyone. Offending users will be further notified and reminded to submit jobs to the compute nodes. Jobs are submitted with slurm commands to the appropriate slurm partition meeting your needs. If you any questions about this change, please send your comments via email to: clustertts-support@tuftsresearch@tufts.edu.
Application Xwindow QoS
Any application, such as Matlab, that creates interactive Xwindows gui presentations will often not display on your local xserver(cygwin, exceed, xwin32,etc...) with the same low latency associated with the application(Matlab) locally installed. This is partly a function of load on the compute node the application is running on, the denseness of the graphics you are creating, the load on the network that connects you remotely and the quality of your video card. It this presents an issue for development tasks, then a locally installed version of the application is suggested. The use of the cluster thereafter could be in support of batch processing to achieve some desired level of scaling. If you any questions, please send your comments to: clustertts-support@tuftsresearch@tufts.edu.
Account Information
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Access to the Cluster or Bioinformatic server requires a Research Cluster account. Faculty, other staff, and students are required to fill out the TTS Research Computer Account Application form.
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The research cluster relies on the Tufts Directory for authentication. It is possible that your account has expired. If so you won't be able to log in until that is resolved. You should contact the Faculty owner/manager of the project you're involved in and ask to have your Tufts Username made eligible again. Once your account is made eligible again then your account on the cluster should be automatically activated again within 24 hours.
What is the hostname of the cluster?
New Cluster: login.cluster.tufts.edu
No longer available is the legacy cluster: cluster6.uit.tufts.edu
What is the hostname of the file transfer node of the cluster?
xfer.cluster.tufts.edu
How do I login to the cluster?
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If you have forgotten your Tufts password and need assistance
resetting it, please contact one of the following:For self service website click here
Alternatively, visit the central website IT at Tufts for additional assistance.
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If the resources of the Tufts cluster do not meet your scaling needs, consider the various supercomputing sites such as Xsede.
To discuss this further please contact tts-research@tufts.edu.