High Performance Computing

High-Performance Computing With a total of 3000+ CPU cores, 120,000 GPU cores, 12+TB of memory, and 1 PB of storage across all systems, our High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources allow researchers to run compute-intensive, large memory programs quickly and efficiently; and

DartFS Lab Permissions

This is more information about DartFS permissions than most people will ever want to learn. We are happy to set up permissions for you if you do not choose to delve into this. Email us at Research.Computing@dartmouth.edu For those who

How can I copy data to DartFS from Discovery?

There are several methods to copy data between DartFS and Discovery’s storage. using a “third party” computer (ie. your laptop/desktop) mount DartFS as a SMB drive on your computer according to the instruction in this FAQ (see Accessing DartFS) mount the Discovery

What is this RStor(AFS) account I was asked about?

Some of these accounts have been around since 1990 and their owners have long since forgotten about them – so it’s a very reasonable question!  An exhaustive list of the ways these have been used would be very difficult to

Overview of the Rstor/AFS migration

Research Computing is migrating accounts from Rstor/AFS to DartFS. People who have Discovery accounts as well as Rstor/AFS accounts will also be migrated during this time frame. The major changes that users will see from this migration are: You will

What was in the Rstor/AFS Migration email?

This email was sent out to all Rstor/AFS users to notify them of the planned migration of their files. ————————————————————————————————— You are receiving this email because you have a Research Computing account and in the coming months your files will

What is DartFS?

DartFS is the name of the new file system that will be used on all Research Computing HPC resources (Discovery, Andes and Polaris). DartFS will replace Rstor(AFS) and the Discovery file system (Isilon,NFS) with a single system that will be

Why can’t I delete, rename, or edit certain files on the Mac?

Macs have the concept of “flags” which live alongside filesystem permissions for a file.  In particular they have a “read only” flag that trumps whatever the filesystem says a user’s or group’s access is supposed to be.  If this flag is set

What does my Research Computing account give me access to?

Your account will allow you to access: Discovery: Linux HPC cluster with GPU nodes and highspeed interconnects Andes and Polaris: General multi-core large memory Linux systems for research and curricular use Network Storage: Centrally hosted large capacity secure data storage You