Various Resources and Mechanisms for Assistance and Learning How To Use ARC Resources
Account Management
ColdFront for (1) creating and managing accounts, (2) updating your team composition (as a PI), (3) storage allocations, and (4) compute allocations.
Office Hours (In-Person and Remote)
The Calendar for office hours provides a link to (1) in-person and (2) remote office hours: their times, Monday through Friday, and location (for in-person) and zoom links (for online).
Consultations and Help Desk
Request a Consultation or submit a problem, bug, or error. Click the Request this service button on the right of the page.
Documentation (These Web Pages)
The ARC documents provide extensive information on use of the clusters.
You are in the ARC docs pages now.
This includes fequently asked questions.
Videos
Video tutorials are provided for many topics for those who would rather watch a video.
These videos support/complement the ARC documentation pages.
Example Codes and Environments
Example codes that run on the clusters are provided in a github repo.
Town Hall Meetings
Town hall meetings, via both zoom and in-person, are held roughly every two months.
Come (1) provide your input, (2) learn about latest developments, (3) hear about coming activities.
Slides and discussion recordings are provided at the link.
Workshops
Workshop series are held each spring and fall semester (weekly). More short-term series are held during the summer and over spring break.
Video recordings of workshops are provided on the same page.
Many of the workshops use markdown “notes files” that users can downloaded at any time. These files may also be updated at any time, so they should be viewed as “evolving” resources.
Dashboards
Dashboards enable you to see live performance of the clusters and your jobs.
There are many types of dashboards (e.g., across all clusters, showing performance/usage across all nodes of a cluster, providing detailed usage of each compute node, usage includes time-history data, summary of jobs running and waiting [so you can submit your job to a less heavily used cluster]).
Course Assistance
ARC works with professors who need computing resources in their courses. This page provides some starting information, but we also want to consult with professors to understand their particular needs.
Department Assistance
ARC provides department-specific presentations that tailor general ARC resources for their needs, and to receive feedback. Please contact us to discuss your needs and objectives. (Click the Request this service button on the right of the page.)