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Proteus, woodcut by Jörg Breu

Proteus is part of the University Research Computing Facility.

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.

Service Status

Proteus is online. Please report irregularities to urcf-support@drexel.edu

Web Portal

The web portal (https://proteusmaster.urcf.drexel.edu/userportal/) is not functioning. This wiki, and Ganglia are working as normal.

Scheduled Downtime

• Next scheduled downtime: Wed Aug 9, 2017 09:00am -- 06:00pm

Staff Out of Office

• tba

Proteus Status

• Current queue status
• Current load graphs
• Usage reports
• Software license status

News

• 2017-07-17:
  • Job Script Example 06 Caffe created
• 2017-07-09:
  • Caffe 1.0 deep learning framework (CPU-only) is now available
• 2017-06-28:
  • Python 3.6.1 compiled with both GCC and Intel ICC is now available
• 2017-05-25:
  • Backup Solutions article updated with information on Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive
• 2017-05-23:
  • Microsoft R Open 3.3.3 (formerly known as Revolution Analytics R) installed
• 2017-05-15:
  • Abaqus 2017 installed
• 2017-04-10:
  • Matlab R2017a installed
• 2017-03-30
  • Parallel Environments article created
• 2017-03-21:
  • Workaround for MPI issues found
  • Updated Matlab article to address multithreaded processing
• 2017-03-10:
  • GROMACS 2016.2 compiled with the Intel compilers + MKL has been installed
• 2017-03-08:
  • Univa Grid Engine has been updated to version 8.4.4

Archived News

Known Issues

• Official web page https://drexel.edu/research/urcf is frozen for a site-wide update by the Office of Research.
• 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 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

• Proteus web portal, showing current cluster status including job queue. The qstat command provides more information.
• Facility Description for Proposals
• Proteus Hardware and Software
• Terms of Use
• Job Scheduling Algorithm
• Benchmarks

Getting Started

• 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

• Univa Grid Engine documentation

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

Useful Links

• Proteus Web User Portal -- login with your Proteus account
• Proteus load monitoring
• List of all articles in this wiki
• List of files available (PDFs of documentation, etc.)