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Proteus and Picotte are part of the University Research Computing Facility.
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Thing 0 - NO DATA BACKUPS AT ALL
URCF DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY FORM OF BACKUP FOR USER AND RESEARCH GROUP DATA. DATA BACKUP IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH USER OR GROUP.
For some suggestions on backing up data, see Backup Solutions.
Security Advisory
Security advisory regarding Python/Conda/pip/PyPI
Numerous malicious packages have been uploaded to PyPI and Conda repositories. These malicious packages may be named slightly different from legitimate packages, i.e. they are using a technique called "typo-squatting". Please double check your commandlines before installation. If you think you may have installed a malicious package, please contact urcf-support@drexel.edu
Talks and Workshops
- Talk
Intro to Picotte for Proteus Users by D. Chin Thursday March 4, 2021 2pm - 3pm on Zoom - see email in URCFHPC-USERS-L
- Recordings of past workshops: URCF Workshops
Getting Help
Please contact URCF support via the issue tracking system:
urcf-support@drexel.edu
This ensures a record is kept of your request and all work done for it.
Please copy and paste any input you typed and resulting error messages in your email. Do not summarize, or try to reproduce the message from memory.
See also: Frequently Encountered Problems
Office Hours
- By appointment, via Zoom. Send email to urcf-support@drexel.edu to request an appointment.
- Information about Drexel Zoom: https://drexel.edu/it/help/a-z/zoom/
Service Status
- Proteus is online.
- Picotte is online.
Please report irregularities to urcf-support@drexel.edu
Trouble Changing Password?
Are you having trouble changing your password? Please see this: Introduction to Using Proteus#Changing Passwords
Web Portal
- The Proteus web portal is not functioning. This wiki, and Ganglia are working as normal.
- The Picotte web user portal is running
Scheduled Downtime
Proteus will have scheduled downtime roughly once every month.
- Next scheduled downtime: t.b.a.
Staff Out of Office
- n/a
Cluster Status
Picotte
Monitoring t.b.a.
Proteus
News
- 2021-03-04
- Picotte Known Issues article started
- Singularity article created, with examples for non-GPU and GPU containers
- 2021-03-03
- Picotte: GPU and big memory nodes have increased local scratch - 1.7 TB (up from 850 GB)
- 2021-02-24
- Complete BLAST Databases (as of 2021-02-24) have been downloaded to Picotte
- SAS installed on Picotte
- 2021-02-23
- NCBI NGS tools installed on Picotte
- NCBI BLAST tools installed on Picotte
- 2021-02-22
- 2021-02-15
- New cluster Picotte open to all users
Known Issues
- Text entry (e.g search) in the mobile view of this wiki is broken
- Password change after expiration is broken. See Introduction to Using_Proteus#Changing Passwords. Please email urcf-support@drexel.edu for a manual reset.
- 4 AMD nodes are offline
URCF Proteus Documentation Wiki
You can login here with your Proteus account: select drexel_urcf in the dropdown menu on the login page. Please feel free to create and edit articles if you wish.
Documentation is being created as we go along. Please see the Recent Changes page for updates.
System Information and Policies
- Rates
- Facility Description for Proposals
- Proteus Hardware and Software
- Terms of Use
- Job Scheduling Algorithm
- Benchmarks
Getting Started
- Usage rates
- Introduction to Using Proteus
- Grid Engine Quick Start Guide
- Recommendations for Jobs
- Miscellaneous Tips
- Installing Software for Your Research Group
- Frequently Encountered Problems
- List of Online Resources
- Articles here are collected into Special:Categories
See also all the articles in the Category:Quick Start Guides
Other Online Documentation
Useful Links
- Proteus load monitoring
- List of all articles in this wiki
- List of files available (PDFs of documentation, etc.)