Processing Data on the Cluster

In June 2024 MX has moved to a new Slurm cluster, with a few changes to the way things are done. The new cluster is called "Wilson". To access Wilson, the command is:

ssh wilson

You will then be prompted for your password.

This will take you to the head node - please don't process data here, and if you do, the job is at risk of being stopped mid-way through to allow the cluster to work properly for other Users. Therefore, please navigate to the folder that you want your script to run in - generally in your visit folder, as your home area is too small for most jobs.

Once in the right place, you can submit jobs using sbatch.

When your job is running, you can type exit to log out - because it'll run happily in the background, and all the output files will appear where you expect. The output text will go to slurm-jobnumber.out.

If you have any further questions, please email [email protected].

More Slurm commands can be found here - https://slurm.schedmd.com/pdfs/summary.pdf