For up-to-date information about system status, please check our systems status page.

Getting Started

Here are a few basic issues that most users of the Centre will want to be informed about

• Current: Migration from Sparc/Solaris/M9000 to x86/Linux/SW
• How to Apply for a New Account
• How to Access Our Systems
• How to Transfer Files
• How to Change Your Password
• How to Run Jobs (usage of scheduler)
• How to compile code (compiler help file)
• How to Set Up a Shell
• Default Resource Allocations and Limits
• Disk Space and Quotas

Support & Training

• User Support Contacts
• Send a Support Question
• Compute Ontario Big Blue Button
• An alphabetic list of help files
• Commonly Encountered Issues

• Workshops
• Our Certificate Program

Hardware

Note: We are currently undergoing a restructuring of our hardware platforms. This means that this section is likely to change frequently. Specifically, our Solaris-based systems are going to be decommissioned in 2016. They will be replaced by x86/Linux based hardware.

• Servers & Clusters
  • SW (Linux) Cluster -> Cluster Status
  • SX (SNOlab) Cluster
  • Workup Nodes
• Storage & Backup
  • Storage
  • Tape
  • Backup
• Network & Communication
• Video Conferencing
• Odds & Ends
  • Portable Drives
  • Systems Status

Software

• Our File Systems
• Systems & OS
• Application Software
• Tools
• Other Software

If you cannot find material that you are looking for, you may want to consult our old HPCVL wiki. If that does not resolve the issue, please contact us.