Creating an account

• The first step to using HPC is by creating an account with your NYU credentials at this page

• Select “Request HPC Account”

  

• Fill in the details on the form. You will need a faculty member to approve/sponsor your account. The list of sponsors is pre-populated and might take a minute or so to load, be patient!

• You will be taken back to the first screen, and it might appear as if nothing happened. Click on “Track my Requests” to ensure the form went through.

• Wait for an approval email!

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Once you have approval, the next step is to configure SSH access. SSH stands for Secure Shell – it is a protocol to connect to a computer other than yours over the network. There are different clusters of computers on HPC – you will probably want to work on the Prince Cluster

• Open up a terminal / command line window

• If you are not on the NYU network,
  • First ssh into the network ssh NETID@gw.hpc.nyu.edu. You will be prompted for your password (same as you normal NYU Net ID password)
  • Then ssh into prince ssh prince, and put in your password once more when you are prompted to
• If you are on the NYU network,
  • ssh into HPC ssh NETID@prince.hpc.nyu.edu and put in your password
• Congratulations, you’re logged into HPC!
• You should see a prompt with your Net ID, and if you type in pwd you will see the directory you are in – which will correspond to your Net ID again.
• You can exit by typing the command exit which will return you to your local machine. (If you are not on the NYU network, you will need to exit twice)

Note: When you login to HPC, you are on a login node, and no intensive computation should be performed here! More on this on the XYZ file

Read about storage next. –>