Cluster 8

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We are still learning about FAC/coreHPC.

you will need to get separate (?) FAC and coreHPC accounts.

  • FAC is for storage
  • coreHPC is for compute
  • it is more complicated than that, but it is a reasonable simplification.
  • We collectively refer to FAC/coreHPC as "Cluster 8".
  • our strategy with Cluster 8 is to upload ZINC on the fly, dock it, and then throw it away.
  • ZINC thus lives on our cluster (Cluster 7, and legacy Cluster 2)
  • The pipe to FAC is 100 Gbps, which allows 1 TB in 3 minutes, and 3 PB is 6 days.
  • thus, ftp/dock/delete.


  • to get to corehpc
ssh <user>@chpc-ucsf-bastion-vm1.corehpc.ucsf.edu
  • to get to slurm head node
ssh chpc-ucsf-login-vm1
  • disks are
/mnt/scratch/user/<user>. 
/mnt/home/<user> 
/home/remote/<user>  ; you land here when you login

Learn more

https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/spaces/CHPC/pages/720396955/CoreHPC+Access+Primer
https://it.ucsf.edu/service/corehpc
https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/spaces/CHPC/pages/736476672/CoreHPC+Submission+Examples
https://wiki.library.ucsf.edu/spaces/CHPC/pages/751928275/CoreHPC+Technical+Overview