Using the CEES HPC resources

Logging in for the first time

Let’s get started! Open your terminal program and write - replacing username with your UiO username:

ssh username@abel.uio.no

This should show something like this:

Last login: Wed Sep  9 11:47:54 2015 from bioxxxxx.uio.no

Welcome to Abel, a supercomputing service by UiO/USIT/UAV/ITF

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Abel login nodes run an automatic nice daemon so that your actions do not
impact other user's interactive work.  Any process consuming more than 30
minutes of CPU time on the login nodes will automatically be killed.

Please note that files stored under the temporary area /work/users/$USER are
deleted if older than 45 days. For more information please see:
http://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/hpc/abel/help/user-guide/data.html

Help on various apects of using Abel can be found here:
http://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/hpc/abel/

If you want to receive Abel operational information by e-mail you can subscribe
to the abel-operations e-mail list by following this URL:
https://sympa.uio.no/usit.uio.no/subscribe/abel-operations

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[login-0-2 ~]$

Now let’s check who we are, and where we are:

pwd

/usit/abel/u1/username

whoami

This should return your username

hostname

login-0-1.local

Here you can have either login-0-1.local, or login-0-2.local. This indicates there are two physical servers, so-called ‘login nodes’ and the system assigns one of them to you randomly.

Let’s log out:

exit