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Getting Started
Getting Started
- End User Agreement
- Accounts
  Accounts
  - CIT Passwords
  - Duo Two-Factor Authentication
    
    Duo Two-Factor Authentication
    
    Enrolling with Duo
  - SAM
- Allocations
  Allocations
  - Managing Your Allocation
  - NCAR Allocations
    
    NCAR Allocations
    
    NCAR Strategic Capability (NSC) projects
  - University Allocations
    
    University Allocations
    
    University Large Allocation Request Preparation Instructions
  - Determining computational resource needs
  - CISL HPC Allocations Panel
    
    CISL HPC Allocations Panel
    
    Allocation Review Criteria
    
    Conflict of Interest Policy
- VPN access
- System Usage Policies
- Data Retention Policies
- Tutorial Archive and Events Calendar
  Tutorial Archive and Events Calendar
- Acknowledging NCAR and CISL
Getting Help
Getting Help
- NCAR HPC Users Group (NHUG)
- NHUG and NCAR Compute and Data Commons Slack
Best Practices for Supercomputer Users
Best Practices for Supercomputer Users
Compute Systems and Services
Compute Systems and Services
- Derecho
  Derecho
- Casper
  Casper
- CIRRUS
  CIRRUS
  - Interact with CIRRUS team
    Interact with CIRRUS team
    
    Agile Methodology in CIRRUS
    
    Create Tickets in Jira
  - Deploying Applications
    
    Deploying Applications
    
    Creating Containers
    
    Adding Applications
    
    Custom Alerting
  - Kubernetes API Access
  - S3 Storage
  - Container Registry
    
    Container Registry
    
    Image Management
    
    Vulnerability Scanner
  - GitHub Actions
    GitHub Actions
    
    GitHub Actions Best Practices
    
    GitHub Actions Runners
  - Jupyter on CIRRUS
    Jupyter on CIRRUS
    
    CIRRUS JupyterHub
    
    Conda Environments
    
    GPU Use
    
    Dask
    
    Binder
  - Functions as a Service
    Functions as a Service
    
    CIRRUS Functions as a Service
  - Secret Manager
  - Frequent Issues
  - Service Level Agreements
- Open OnDemand
  Open OnDemand
  - Job Composer
  - Sandbox Apps and Appverse
- JupyterHub
  JupyterHub
  - Jupyter and IPython
- Additional Resources
  Additional Resources
  - Cron services
  - Thunder test system
Running Jobs (PBS)
Running Jobs (PBS)
- Job Scripts
  Job Scripts
  - Derecho Job Script Examples
  - Casper job Script Examples
- Queues and Charging
- Job Dependencies
- Peer Scheduling between Systems
- Job Preemption with PBS
- Common Causes of Job Failures
  Common Causes of Job Failures
  - Checking Memory Use
- Storing temporary files
Storage Systems and Data Transfer
Storage Systems and Data Transfer
- GLADE (POSIX File Systems)
  GLADE (POSIX File Systems)
- Quasar (Tape Storage)
  Quasar (Tape Storage)
  - Quasar system specifications
- Boreas (Object Storage)
- Transferring Data
  Transferring Data
  - Globus
    
    Globus
    
    Sharing data and making unattended transfers
  - SSH based tools
- CMIP Analysis Platform
User Environment
User Environment
- Using Modules
- Customizing your Environment
- Environment & Package Managers
  Environment & Package Managers
  - Conda
  - Pixi
  - uv
  - Spack
- Containers
  Containers
  - Working with Containers
  - Example Workflows
HPC Software
HPC Software
- Community Models
  Community Models
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- NCL
- MATLAB Parallel Computing Toolbox
- Numerical Libraries
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- NCAR Classic Libraries for Geophysics
- Utilities
- VS Code
- Profiling & Debuggers
  Profiling & Debuggers
  - Debugging and Profiling with Forge Tools
  - Intel Parallel Studio XE
- Benchmarks
  Benchmarks
  - NCAR Benchmarking applications - 2015 release
  - NCAR Benchmarking applications - 2019-2020 release
Contributing to the Documentation
Contributing to the Documentation

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