Sharu Paul

Sharu Paul

Sharu Paul is a Research Scientist at the Genome Informatics Facility at Iowa State University. His background is in Biotechnology with a Ph.D. in Genetics and Genomics. His research is wide-ranging, covering topics from Single-Cell Analyses to the building of Deep Neural Networks. By employing an extensive range of bioinformatic analyses, he seeks to solve big data problems and contributes to developing workshops and tutorials for USDA scientists.

DataScience Workbook / 06: High-Performance Computing (HPC) / 1. Introduction to HPC infrastructure / 1.3. ISU HPC Network / 1.3.1. ISU HPC: Condo computing cluster

Introduction

The condo cluster is out of support since July 1, 2021. It is now under Free Tier model and available to all ISU researchers for free. A detailed guide is available from ISU: ISU Condo Cluster ⤴

Getting Started

Access and Login

Condo login node: @condo2017.its.iastate.edu If logging in the first time, check the Logging in section of intro to HPC page.

Using Condo cluster has same requirements as the Nova Computing Cluster ⤴ except Condo is free. Faculty can fill out the Cluster Access Request on HPC webpage ⤴ to request access for their group. Use Google Authenticator on Android ⤴, iPhone ⤴ or Windows ⤴ devices for authentication.

To log in to Condo, use any Terminal (Terminal on Linux/Mac and Powershell on Windows) to ssh with the login hostname:

 ssh <ISU NetID>@condo2017.its.iastate.edu

Data Transfer and Jobs

Condo transfer node: @condodtn.its.iastate.edu

Use the login hostname: @condo2017.its.iastate.edu to log in to Condo and submit jobs,
but use the data transfer node for data transfers: @condodtn.its.iastate.edu

# Login:
ssh <ISU NetID>@condodtn.its.iastate.edu

# Copy data:
cp /home/$USER/test.txt /myfiles/Users/$USER/


#!/bin/bash

#SBATCH --time=01:00:00   # walltime limit (HH:MM:SS)
#SBATCH --nodes=1   # number of nodes
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=16   # 16 processor core(s) per node
#SBATCH --mail-user=netid@iastate.edu
#SBATCH --mail-type=begin
#SBATCH --mail-type=end

# LOAD MODULES, INSERT CODE, AND RUN YOUR PROGRAMS HERE
module load modulename
your code/commands

Copy/paste the above job script into a text file, add your modules and commands, and submit with the following command:

sbatch filename

Check your queued jobs:

squeue -u your_netID

Available Software

Check out the following: