Frequently Asked Questions for Ada

15-May-2008



How to Use Ada

Introduction to Ada - An overview of ada.rice.edu including a description of the system, its filesystems and quotas, example job submission scripts, instructions on how to customize your environment, and information on getting help.
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How do I get a research account on Ada? - Step-by-step instructions on how to get a research sponsor account for faculty, or a login account for Rice users and guests of Rice.
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How do I get a class account on Ada? - Step-by-step instructions for faculty and students on how to set up accounts for a class.
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How will the August 2007 System Update Affect Me? - Details on system updates installed during August, 2007, including the relocation of softare to /opt/apps and home directories to /users.
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How will the 2007 Scheduler Replacement Affect Me? - Details on the replacement of Ada's job scheduler and resource manager in February, 2007. This document details changes in job submission scripts required by the new scheduler.
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How do I use Linux? - Basic description of Linux and links to Linux tutorials and resources.
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How do I get help? Instructions on how to request help.
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Policies

Queuing Policy
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Account Retention, Data Retention, and Data Backup, Recovery, and Archiving
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Software Installation Policy
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Access to Ada

How do I get a research account on Ada?
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How do I get a class account on Ada?
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What is the password for my new account?
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Why has the password for my new account expired?
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How do I login to Ada using SSH from Unix/Linux?

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How do I login to Ada using SSH from Windows (old method)?
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How do I login to Ada using SSH and X-Win32 from Windows (new method)?
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How do I login to Ada from off campus?
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How do I transfer files to Ada?
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How do I transfer large data sets from off campus?
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How do I change my login password?
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How do I access Ada from RiceNet2?
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How do I access Ada from the Residential Colleges?
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Submitting Jobs and Job Scheduling

How do I submit a job with PBS?
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How do I enable or disable email notifications for my jobs?
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How do I submit a parallel (MPI) job with PBS?
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How do I submit a job with mpiexec or mpirun?
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How do I use the Interactive queue?
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How will the new job scheduler impact me?
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Why are my PBS jobs not running?
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When will my job run?
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Why is my job not running even though showstart says it should be running?
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How do I determine my job priority?
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How is my Fairshare score determined?
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Why are my jobs scheduled to run out of order?
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How do I force jobs to run in sequence?
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How do I request exclusive access to a node?
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How do I guarantee that my job will run on both cores of a dual processor?
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How do I determine which core a process thread is running on?
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How do I set environment variables with module in PBS batch scripts?
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Software Development, Performance, and Debugging

How do I compile my program?
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Introduction to Parallel Computing (MPI)
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Which filesystem should I use for job output?
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How do I perform I/O redirection when using mpiexec?
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How do I improve job efficiency and performance?
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How do I ensure that my job has enough memory available to run?
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I am using /lustre but my job I/O performance is still poor. How do I fix this?
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How do I run the Totalview debugger on Ada?
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How do I use the Totalview debugger (user's guide and tutorials)?
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How do I change the stack size for my processes?
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How do I set environment variables with module in PBS batch scripts?
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How do I determine which core a process thread is running on?
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Software Tools on Ada

What software is installed on Ada?
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How do I request installation of my software?
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How do I run graphical applications on Ada from Windows?
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Matlab

How do I submit a Matlab job?
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How do I use Matlab (user's guide)?
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Totalview

How do I run the Totalview debugger on Ada?
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How do I use the Totalview debugger (user's guide and tutorials)?
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Gaussian

How do I run Gaussian With Linda?
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SAS

How do I run SAS on Ada?
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Why am I getting Disk Write Errors with SAS?
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Why am I getting Unable to Initialize Work Library errors with SAS?
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How do I use SAS (User's Guide)?
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R

How do I run R on Ada?
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LinBUGS/OpenBUGS

How do I run LinBUGS on Ada?
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Mathematica

How do I run Mathematica on Ada?
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NAMD

How do I run NAMD on Ada?
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How do I use NAMD (User's Guide)?
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General HowTo Questions and Answers

How do I use Linux?
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How do I change my password?
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How do I determine my disk quota?
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How do I use /projects?
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How do I use passwordless SSH?
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How do I view a postscript or PDF file?
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How do I change my default shell?
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How do I change the stack size for my processes?
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