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Users’ General FAQs (User FAQs)

Wednesday 11 April 2012

This document is FAQ for the users’ of the PRACE infrastructure.

This FAQ is kept up-to-date and readers are encouraged to submit new FAQ questions or other improvements.

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Data Transfer with GridFTP (Data Transfer with GridFTP)

Thursday 5 April 2012

This document describes the deployment and usage of the data transfer facility GridFTP, a component of the Globus middleware suite. GridFTP allows to transfer data efficiently between PRACE sites as well as between a non-PRACE site and a PRACE site.

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Helpdesk Guide (Helpdesk Guide)

Thursday 29 March 2012

This document describes the use of the PRACE Helpdesk.

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Best Practice Guide - Cray XE (V2.6) (Documentation and User Support)

Wednesday 8 February 2012

Table of contents 1. Introduction, p1 1.1 PRACE Cray XE/XT Systems, p1 1.2 Useful Links, p1 2. System Architecture and Configuration, p2 2.1 Processor architecture / MCM (...), p2 2.1.1 Compute node hardware, p2 2.1.2 Vector-type instructions, p2 2.1.3 Bulldozer (Interlagos) (...)

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PRACE Common Production Environment (PRACE Common Production Environment)

Thursday 12 January 2012

Overview The PRACE Common Production Environment (PCPE) is a set of software tools and libraries that we plan to make available on all PRACE execution sites. The PCPE also defines a set of environment variables that try to make compilation on all sites as homogeneous and simple as possible. (...)

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UNICORE6 in PRACE (UNICORE in PRACE)

Thursday 12 January 2012

Overview Introduction One method of creating, submitting and monitoring your PRACE production jobs is via the UNICORE Rich Client (URC), without the need for the user to know the details of the target platform’s batch system. Indeed, UNICORE provides a seamless, uniform and secure access to (...)

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The MyProxy Service (MyProxy Service)

Thursday 12 January 2012

With the MyProxy Service, proxy certificates can be stored for later usage when, for instance, your private key is not at hand.

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PRACE Batch Systems (PRACE Batch Systems)

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Introduction This document briefly describes each of the Batch Systems currently deployed at each of the PRACE platforms. It describes some basic commands of each system and then lists some site-specific commands which may be of interest. For further more detailed information, the user (...)

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Interactive Access to HPC Resources (Interactive Access to HPC Resources)

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Interactive Access Interactive access is provided to all systems for which access is granted as part of a PRACE allocation of resources. Within PRACE, we recommend employing gsissh for interactive access to your Execution Site. First, employ gsissh on your local workstation to access a PRACE (...)

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Accounting Report Tool (Distributed Accounting Report Tool)

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Description The PRACE infrastructure enables access to the PRACE CPU hour usage using DART, the Distributed Accounting Report Tool, which is a client application which gathers accounting information provided by every PRACE site in a standardised manner. Based on this information it generates (...)

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