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: Arc User Guide Arc is the primary High Performance Computing (HPC) system at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) that can be used for running data in... (last changed by ZhiweiWang)

ZhiweiWang https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/AboutArcCluster 2026-05-20T20:42:50Z

About Arc Cluster Arc is UTSA's primary high performance (HPC) resource; utilized by researchers, students, faculty and staff from a broad range of disciplines. C... (last changed by ZhiweiWang)

ZhiweiWang https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/DesigningAndRunningParallelPrograms 2025-10-31T16:03:39Z

Importance of Parallel Programming High Performance Computing (HPC) systems — such as Arc — are clusters composed of many interconnected nodes, each equipped with... (last changed by ZhiweiWang)

ZhiweiWang https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/LoggingIntoARC 2025-10-09T18:37:19Z

Logging Into Arc from a Linux or Mac Desktop/Laptop You can connect to Arc using your myUTSA ID (abc123) and an SSH client or terminal. Two factor authentication ... (last changed by ZhiweiWang)

ZhiweiWang https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/MonitoringBatchJobs 2025-10-08T20:39:38Z

Managing submitted batch jobs on Arc involves monitoring, controlling, and troubleshooting your jobs using Slurm commands. Below is a concise guide on how to do ... (last changed by ZhiweiWang)

ZhiweiWang https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/RunningApplicationsInteractivelyAndSubmittingBatchJobs 2025-10-08T16:17:54Z

Running Applications Interactively Running applications interactively on Arc allows you to test, debug, or run graphical or command line programs directly on a co... (last changed by ZhiweiWang)

ZhiweiWang https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/MigratingDataToArc 2025-10-07T15:50:25Z

Migrating Data From Arc to the Isilon archival storage The Isilon storage system serves as secondary, archival storage for research data. It is accessible from bo... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/ApplicationCheckpointingAndRestartOnArc 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

Checkpointing is the process of saving the execution state of an application such that this saved state can be used to continue the execution at a later time. Typ... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/CProgrammingWithSelf-DefinedCheckpoint-and-Restart 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

Checkpoint and restart with DMTCP or tools can create large disk images, and the checkpoint details are controlled by the third party system. To avoid the problem... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/Checkpoint-and-RestartForR 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

If your R script is expected to run beyond the 72 hour limit on Arc, we suggest implementing a checkpointing and restart mechanism in your script. This will help ... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/FOSWikiVersion-LoggingIntoArcAndSubmittingJobs 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

Table of Contents LOGGING INTO ARC. 1 ACCESSING COMPUTE NODES ON ARC. 1 RUNNING JOBS INTERACTIVELY WITH THE SRUN COMMAND.. 3 SUBMITTING BATCH JOBS WITH THE SBATCH... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/GPU 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

Sample GPU submit script using the Caffe training network Using the Tesla K80 cards: #SBATCH partition="gpu" #SBATCH nodes=1 #SBATCH gres=gpu:k80:1 . /etc/pr... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/HTMLVersion-LoggingIntoArcAndSubmittingJobs 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

Table of Contents LOGGING INTO ARC. 1 ACCESSING COMPUTE NODES ON ARC. 1 RUNNING JOBS INTERACTIVELY WITH THE SRUN COMMAND.. 3 SUBMITTING BATCH JOBS WITH THE SBATCH... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/ModuleEnvironments 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

Module Environments A module system helps in managing access to the software packages and versions that you need. If there are multiple versions of a software ava... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/MonitoringYourJobs 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

Monitoring your jobs Using the squeue Command Check the status of all jobs on Arc using the squeue command (this is just an example compute names may be differe... (last changed by AdminUser)

AdminUser https://hpcsupport.utsa.edu/foswiki/bin/view/WebDocumentation/PythonVMsInAnaconda 2024-10-28T21:35:24Z

If you need to install your own programs/modules in python you can do it via creating vms. Some programs may need specific versions of modules to work correctly a... (last changed by AdminUser)

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