Accessing the cluster

HTC Cluster can be accessed through ssh at htc-fe.rmlab.infn.it

Authentication

You can login using your own roma2.infn.it username (no need to add roma2.infn.it domain in the username) and password.

Storage areas

All nodes inside the cluster have access to two shared filesystems: 

• /data/<group> : Standard performances pool for scientific group
• /data-fast/<group> : High performances SSD disk pool for scientific group
• /data/users/<user>: Standard performance pool for user related data

ALL OTHER STORAGE AREAS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS NON PERSISTENT 

Storage quotas

Every project starts with 10TB of storage on standard pool and 1TB of storage on SSD pool.

User data, on /data/users, have an initial per user quota of 100GB.

Please note that each of these quota might be refined if needed.

CVMFS repos

All cluster nodes mount, in the /cvmfs folder, the following cvmfs software repositories:

• atlas.cern.ch
• atlas-condb.cern.ch
• atlas-nightlies.cern.ch
• sft.cern.ch
• geant4.cern.ch

It's possibile to mount other repos if needed.

HTCondor how to

HTCondor basic how to is described here