HPCC User Guides

The following material gives information on requesting accounts, on general usage, and on application-specific usage for the HPCC resources. Please also refer to the resources on the HPCC Training page.

Account Request

All users with valid eRaider accounts can request access to HPCC resources using the following links. Students and staff must indicate a TTU faculty sponsor for their request.

• New account request

Non-TTU research partners who do not have an eRaider account must first ask a TTU-based faculty sponsor to request a "Research Partner Account" from the university for them to use before requesting access to HPCC resources. These processes are detailed in the following links.

• Research Partner Account resources
• Research Partner HPCC account request

Guides for RedRaider Cluster Usage and Data Transfer

• Details on RedRaider cluster partitions: HPCC Equipment
• How to connect to our systems: Connecting to HPCC Systems
• How to set up your Application Environment: Software Environment Setup
• How to submit jobs to our systems: Job Submission Guide (Slurm)
• How to manage array jobs on our systems: Array Jobs Guide (Slurm)
• How to convert from previous Univa Grid Engine to present Slurm scheduler commands: Conversion Table
• Transferring files to/from HPCC resources: Transferring Data Guide
• Setting permissions to share your files with other HPCC accounts: Sharing File Access

Application Specific User Guides

• Python:
  1. How to install Python packages within in your account (useful for small individual local packages only):
     Installing Python packages locally
  2. How to install fully customized versions of Python in controlled environments:
     Installing a local custom copy of Python using Miniforge (Note: replaces previous miniconda method.)
• R: Running R Jobs on HPCC Resources (including instructions on installing R packages to your account)
• MATLAB: Running MATLAB on HPCC Resources
• Jupyter: How to install and run Jupyter notebooks and Jupyter Lab on HPCC worker nodes
• Workflow Management:
  • NextFlow: Running NextFlow on HPCC Resources
• LLM's: Running Ollama on the RedRaider Cluster

Software Installation Requests

• To request software to be installed across the cluster or a given partition, or to your own account, please fill out a software installation request form.