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Research IT Group
Brian Macherone Director Anne Shelton Systems Programmer/Analyst Eric Warnke Systems Administrator Research IT Group Fine Arts B01 1400 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12222 Phone: 518-442-3440 ritgroup@albany.edu

The mission of Research IT (RIT) is to develop core services in support of research, including high-performance computing for grant seeking and funded researchers. A major objective of Research IT is to provide IT consultation to faculty in the grant development process. The Research group works closely with each of the other ITS units, and with school and departmental-based research IT staff, to fulfill its mission.

Please contact us if you are an active grant-seeking or funded researcher and would like to explore options to fulfill the IT requirements of your investigations.

UAlbany ITS Facilities - This document may be used by researchers in grant proposals to describe the University ITS Infrastructrue.

Contents 1 Projects 2 Training Material/User Guides/Tutorials 3 Documentation 4 Managed nodes

Projects

• UAlbany Research Computing Grid
• NYSGrid

Training Material/User Guides/Tutorials

• Matlab

Documentation

• New User Documentation
• Batch Processing
  • What is Condor
  • Condor Job Management
  • ITS Internal Documentation - UAlbany Condor Project Software: Condor and CygWin
  • UAlbany Condor Pool statistics
  • Sample condor job runs
  • Common Condor Commands
  • Condor Manual
• NY State Grid Information - Globus
  • Globus System Setup (Internal RIT Documentation)
  • Grid User Setup
  • Renewing DOEGrid Certificate
  • Running jobs on the Grid
  • Running jobs on the Grid - old
• File Services
  • Setting up a SAMBA Account and using SAMBA
• Graphical Access
  • VNC View setup
  • Setting up Cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows
• MPI Environments
  • Running MPI jobs
  • Sample MPI Fortran Program
  • Benchmarking MPI
  • lam/mpi commands

• Compute Resources - Hardware and Software supported

• How-to
  • Find missing home directories

• Useful Linux Commands

Managed nodes

Our managed nodes fall into groups. Our largest and most powerful group is the IBM pSeries Cluster with 64 CPU's. We also have a brand new Prometheus Cluster ( was dell cluster ) with 8 CPU's. On top of that we also have a number of miscellaneous Systems that perform a number of services and Managed Research Workstations that are owned by individual researchers.

Dell Rack 8 * The dell cluster is now known as Prometheus Cluster and direct logins to computer nodes is now depreciated. All logins should first login to prometheus.rit.albany.edu and run jobs from that node using the batch system 'see condor'

Bringing up a new node

File Servers We are now operating under our new file servers Clio and Calliope. These two Dell 2800's are redundant and failover to each other in case of scheduled or unscheduled outages. Besides the changes that were effective on 4/12, you will start to see some changes over the next few weeks and months as we transition more of our services to the new redundant servers.

LDAP Management

New Backup

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