Contents
Getting Started
Where can I find information on known problems?
How do I use the iSupport system?
How do I use the RT system?
How do CSIRO users login from outside CSIRO?
How do I work with ssh?
Why is my environment broken?
How does shell startup work?
What do I need in my .rhosts file?
Why are my files which I edited with MSwindows causing problems?
How do I use modules to setup my environment?
How do I change my login shell?
Graphical User Interfaces
How do I choose between VNC and a local X display?
How do I set up a VNC session?
How do I set up an X display on my desktop PC?
Portability
Portability of programs and data from the SX to the Sun Constellation
Monitoring
How do I make top behave nicely on cherax?
Batch Use
How do I manage my jobs as a group?
I have a chain of jobs - How do I create job dependencies in Torque?
How do I run a set of jobs in parallel?
I have a large set of jobs - How can I make only a limited number run at once (in Torque)?
Why do I get:'Warning: no access to tty?'
Why does my batch job fail - files not found?
Where is my batch job output?
What are the resource options?
What are the queue limits?
How do I handle commands failing (in batch scripts)?
How do I determine the number of cpus I have allocated in a batch job?
Why isn't my job starting?
Performance Tuning
I have a code that can use OpenMP or MPI. Which should I use?
How should I choose between using OpenMP and MPI to parallelize code?
File I/O and transfer
What is the best place to store files?
What is the best way to transfer files?
What if the files are on my windows desktop PC?
How can I synchronize a directory structure?
What is the best way to improve I/O performance in my program?
Solar
My login session has gone - what happened?
linuxgpu (CSIRO's GPU cluster)
Resource Requests and Scheduling
Requesting CPU cores
Requesting GPUs in addition to CPU cores
Can I use OpenGL on the Linux GPU cluster?
Can I use OpenGL on the Windows GPU cluster?