Welcome group members

Welcome to the lab. This page is designed for new group members, our collaborators and anyone else who wishes to access our cluster via ssh.

As you know, we have two labs, one in Toronto and one in San Francisco. Moreover, in each location there are shared clusters that we have access to. We take up each in turn.

Toronto - our cluster

Obtaining credentials

For command line access to our cluster, please contact Teague, Therese or John for credentials. For your main email address, you may well use your gmail account or other public account for most purposes.

Disk usage conventions

We differentiate dockers from everyone else. If you are a full time member of the group, your disk space allocation will be like this:

Your home directory is for important or small files. 500 GB default. Backed up.

/nfs/home/<userid>/

We expect you to run docking calculations in /project/. 1TB default. Not backed up.

/nfs/project/<userid>/

If you have large amounts of data you want kept, e.g. from the synchrotron, you may request repository space to keep it. Backed up. Size by agreement.

/nfs/repos/<userid>/

If you generate private databases, you may request /db/ space. Backup by arrangement. Size by agreement.

/nfs/db/<userid>/

If you have software you want to share, you may request /software/ space. backed up. 500 GB.

/nfs/software/<userid>/

Getting set up with lab software

svn co dockenv
cp $SOFT/labenv.csh ~/.csh 

OR

cp $SOFT/labenv.sh ~/.bashrc

for bash users.

Toronto - SciNet cluster

If you need personal access to the SciNet cluster, you will need a U of T email address. If you do not need access to SciNet, then you may well not need a U of T email address.

• 1. Contact Lilita, who can get you a U of T email address.
• 2. Get a Compute Canada Role Identifier (CCRI) from me.
• 3. Register on SciNet (page here).

Access from home

How to generate ssh keys securely

How_to_create_a_vpn/ssh_tunnel

Good habits

Set aside a quiet time every month to review your disk usage, and compress, delete or move excessive usage.

Synchrotron trips

We can help arrange to store your data in a safe place. Ask before you leave.

When you leave the lab

Please discuss with Teague or Therese or John one month before you leave the lab to agree on which of your files will remain. We can provide you with portable disks so you can take software and data with you, if you like. If you want to take the lab software with you, we can help with that too.