Account requests can be made by contacting our Support Center via our Online Service Request System or by calling (305) 348-2284 during business hours (8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, Mon-Fri) or emailing hpcadmin@fiu.edu.

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Accounts

Accounts are available for all FIU faculty, research associates, and students (based on faculty approval). A portion of this environment has been set aside for no cost use. If additional computing power or storage is needed, investments or cost sharing opportunities are available.

Please note, if you are a new group requesting access to HPC resources we require an in-person meeting as part of the on-boarding process. This is an import step to help groups make the transition to using the HPC a lot smoother and easier. It also helps us understand the kind of research that will be conducted on the HPC so that we can provide better service to the FIU community.

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Access to the HPC

All HPC resources can be access without any extra steps when connected to FIU wired and wireless networks. If you are off campus and trying to access the HPC resources, you need to be connected to FIU Virtual Private Network (VPN) first. Please follow instructions in VPN Guides page to setup and connect to FIU VPN. You can also create a support ticket usign AskIT portal.

Text Based Login
GUI Based Login

First Time Login

If you have never logged in into your HPC account, we strongly recommend you to go through following steps. These steps are simple, GUI based and less prone to errors.

Go to any up to date modern browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari and type

https://hpclogin.fiu.edu
You will be presented with login prompt as shown in the picture below. (Different Browsers might present you with different prompt.

!!!! Students !!!! Even if you have both employee and student credentials, you should use your student credentials on to login

3. When you login for the first time, you will be greeted with the screen as seen in picture below.

4. Click on link 1 to create a home directory (Folder) & a New Tab will open in the browser.

5. The terminal will throw a couples of lines. Don’t worry if you do not understand what it is saying. It will probably won’t ask for the next time you login. Just type yes on the prompt to continue

You don’t need to worry about this. It is complaining that your home directory and some files are not created. You are logging in for the first time. Type yes to continue.

6. It will now prompt for password. Type your password. You might not see anything on screen while typing a password but it is normal in unix/linux based system. Just hit enter.when you complete.

7. A successful login will dump bunch of lines. It is creating lot of necessary files for you. Your screen would look like this.

8. You can close the broser tab now. Go to the previous tab and click the “Restart Web Server” icon.

9. From now on, every time you login using a”hpcgui”, your welcome screen looks like this. Feel free to browse through various features. You can also visit Visualization page if you like a desktop experience.

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There are basically two ways you can login/access the HPC resources. The text based login might be different depending upon the operating system you use to login. The GUI based login is using a web browser and experience is the same regardless of OS you are using.

Text Based Login

Login with Linux

user@linux~$ ssh yourusername@hpclogin.fiu.edu

Here “yourusername” is your FIU username (e.g. roary001). It will prompt you for a password. A successfull login will take you to the HPC login node. From there you should be able to perform your regular tasks.

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Login with Mac OS

Hit Command + Space to go to the spot light search
Type “terminal” of spotlight search.
Double click a “Terminal” icon as highlighted in a picture in step 2.
A terminal window will open. Type “yourusename@hpclogin/.fiu.edu”
When your are trying ot login for the first time, it might complain and ask you to confirm something. Type “yes” to confirm. Form next time, it will not ask the same question again.
Type your password when prompted.
A successful login will take you to the HPC login node and your terminal would look something like

[roary001@u01 ~]$

A basic linux command skills are required to work with HPC. [Link to Linux Tutorials]

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Login with Windows

If you have not PuTTY installed please got to PuTTY download page
Choose the right version of PuTTY that fits your computer architecture. (Most of the modern computers are 64 bit. But you should confirm before you choose)
When the download is complete, click the installer and follow the
instructions. Leave all options to default. It should not take that long to complete the installation.
Open the PuTTY and fill sections as shown.
Do following
1. Click Session
2. In the Host Name box type “hpclogin01@fiu.edu “
3. In Port box type “22”
4. Select a “SSH” protocal and save for quick future sessions.
5. Load the saved session and Click Opn
A popup window will appear. It is saying that you have never loggin to HPC with this machine. Select “yes” to add configuration.
It will promt you for your username. Type your username.
It will now promt for password. Type your password.
Type your password. A successfull login will take you to a HPC login node.

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If you are less comfortable with command line tools explained in Text Based Login section, you can use any modern browser to login to HPC. You can login by typing https://hpclogin.fiu.edu and using your FIU credentials.

Once you are in you can use “Files” drop down menu and click a “Home Directory” to navigate through your home directory, upload files and many other tasks. Please remember that file upload larger than 2 GB is not recommended. You can follow a “File Transfer Guides” [Page to be created] to transfer medium to large sized files to/from HPC.

By selecting “Clusters” dropdown menu, you can open a new terminal shell in new tab.

Select “Intereactive Apps” to get the desktop experience. For detailed instructions see Roary Desktop Access.

Accounts and Access

Accounts

Access to the HPC