R How to add packages to your local repository Depending on the packages you want installed, you can do one of two things within R. First we load the R module an...
Grid Engine Job Submission In order to use the Grid Engine commands you first need to load the "sge" module: abc123@login 0 0 abc123 $ module load sge You can su...
Main.AdminUser 26 Sep 2019 When you log into notebooks.azure.com go to your My Projects page. Click on Upload Github Repo and a form will come up. To upload the r...
Main.AdminUser 25 Sep 2019 You can make a free jupyter notebook on notebooks.azure.com by logging in to your microsoft account. After logging in if you go to 'My ...
LAMMPS LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soli...
Fluent When running Fluent v16 or above in parallel batch mode, additional parameters need to be added to the Fluent command line. Fluent supports integration wit...
ParaView is an open source, multi platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data usin...
Sun Grid Engine submit file for OpenFOAM #!/bin/bash # #$ S /bin/bash #$ N name_of_job #$ pe openmpi 16 . /etc/profile.d/modules.sh # Load program modules modu...
Managing your Files Users on Shamu are automatically granted several locations to store their files. Most users will be storing their files in one of two location...
Ansys Ansys is a graphical program so you will need to have X11 forwarded in order to use this program. To run the program, qlogin to grab a compute node, load th...
To install gubbins it's recommended that you install it into a python virtual environment. First follow the instruction to create a python VE here on this page (c...
http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ VisualSFM is a GUI application for 3D reconstruction using structure from motion (SFM). The reconstruction system integrates several of my pr...
Simple Single Threaded Job Script From the command line create a new file called myjob.sh using Nano or VIM. Below is a simple script which sets your SGE environm...
MXnet Apache MXNet is a modern open source deep learning framework used to train, and deploy deep neural networks. It is scalable, allowing for fast model trainin...
Computing Resources Storage The Shamu research cluster has approximately 150TB of shared storage utilizing a high speed 56GB/s Infiniband network. We use two re...
Gizmo The simulation code GIZMO is a flexible, massively parallel, multi method multi physics code, with a wide range of different physics modules described in th...
Why can't I log into Shamu? * You don't have an account on Shamu. All logins to Shamu are based on your campus myUTSA ID. * There could be a network issue f...
Torch Torch is a scientific computing framework with wide support for machine learning algorithms that puts GPUs first. It is easy to use and efficient, thanks to...
Blender How to use Blender on Shamu to render your scenes or animations. First you will need to upload your *.blend file to your home directory. If you need more ...
Why isn't my job running on Shamu? * System load is high on the compute nodes * A system downtime has been scheduled and jobs are being held. Check the mess...
How to request an account on Shamu for Students Students who wish to have an account on Shamu must fill out the online account submission form located here: https...
How to request an account on Shamu for Faculty Faculty members who wish to have an account on Shamu must submit their request via the form at https://utsa.az1.qua...
VizLab and SiViRT The UTSA Advanced Visualization Laboratory (VizLab), managed by the Office of Information Technology, allows researchers from all disciplines of...
Computing Resources Network The Shamu research cluster contains four (4) types of network configurations. * External network 10G public connection to the I...
Common Problems with Shamu This document will try to explain the most common issues and problems with Shamu. Why isn't my job running? Why can't I login? ...
Mugsy Mugsy is a multiple whole genome aligner. Mugsy uses Nucmer for pairwise alignment, a custom graph based segmentation procedure for identifying collinear re...
Running jobs on Shamu * Submitting your Batch Job Submit your code to run on the compute nodes. Create a submission script and specify options for better...
Common Languages and Compilers The Shamu research cluster contains many open source and licensed languages and compilers. Below is a list. Compilers Intel Parall...
Bowtie Bowtie is an ultrafast, memory efficient short read aligner. It aligns short DNA sequences (reads) to the human genome at a rate of over 25 million 35 bp r...
Homer HOMER (Hypergeometric Optimization of Motif EnRichment) is a suite of tools for Motif Discovery and ChIP Seq analysis. It is a collection of command line pr...
VMD What is VMD? See also http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ VMD is designed for the visualization and analysis of biological systems such as protei...
LS Dyna LS Dyna is a general purpose finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems. It is used by the automobile, aerospace, constructi...
Fiji Fiji is an image processing packageāa "batteries included" distribution of ImageJ, bundling a lot of plugins which facilitate scientific image analysis. In o...
How to use your assigned job queue or compute nodes If you have purchased equipment and had it installed in Shamu you have the ability to dedicate individual comp...
How to run Parallel Batch jobs On Shamu we have three (3) parallel Grid Engine environments but you only need to use one. First you need to load the "sge" module ...
Welcome to Research Computing Support at UTSA! The Research Computing Support Group at UTSA provides computing, storage and visualization resources to support res...