Obtaining account
Please provide the following information to the system@nicadd.niu.edu
- your full name, title (student, collaborator, e.t.c) and e-mail
- a preferred account (login) name at nicadd
- your project supervisor contact info
- a short project description
- an estimation of the required resources (disk space, CPU hours, access to specific hardware or software, e.t.c.)
After approval you will receive a welcome message with account information and cluster access instructions
The first login
The NICADD cluster is accessible via SSH protocol. Linux and MAC systems do have or allow an easy installation of command line SSH clients. On Windows systems one can install the free "PuTTY" ssh client.
Cluster access from Linux or MAC:
- open a terminal program (xterm, konsole, e.t. c.)
- type ssh -X loginName@t3int0.nicadd.niu.edu
- follow instructions from the welcome message
Cluster access from Windows:
- install and run Putty ssh client
- configure/save a session to t3int0.nicadd.niu.edu
Outbound access to FNAL or CERN (default) nodes
- kinit -f remote_user_name@FNAL.GOV
- ssh remote_user_name@remote_node.fnal.gov
Data disks
The default quota for the user's home directory is 5 GB. This space is only intended to be used for configuration scripts and personal documents. All code development and data analysis work should be done on the cluster's data disks ( /xdata and/or /bdata).
Backup policy.
We only provide the previous day backup of /home area. We strongly encourage users to use GIT system for any code development and do frequent backups of important data to remote locations.