How do I get a user account on the Lawrencium cluster?
PIs can sponsor researchers/students and external collaborators for cluster accounts. Account requests and approval will be done through MyLRC portal. Either PI or a user can place a user account creation request on the MyLRC portal. Please see the MyLRC documentation to learn how to submit a request. Upon request, an automatic email will be sent to PI for the approval. PI would approves the request on the MyLRC portal and it’ll just take a few hours for the request to be processed. Users are notified through email upon account availability.
How do I submit my first job?
Login to the cluster using any of the terminal options of your choice. You may login to cluster using the server name lrc-login.lbl.gov. Use your user name and PIN+OTP combination to login successfully. Upon login you will be end up on one of the login nodes in your home directory. Please do not submit jobs on the login nodes. You would request a compute node either using an interactive or batch slurm session. You need to know your slurm association before scheduling the slurm session. Check out slurm job submission examples here. Depending on type of job for example CPU only, GPU, MPI, serial, you could visit the slurm script examples on this page.
How do I transfer data to and from the cluster?
For more details, please see the examples on the data movement and storage page.