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VMware ESXI SNMP v3 Setup

A bit of bat script to set snmp v3 on your ESXI cluster set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\esxcli\ set VCASERVER=vca.example.com set VCAUSERNAME=VCENTERUSERNAME set VCENTERPASSWORD=VCENTERPASSWORD set VCENTERFINGERPRINT=EE:EE:FF:FF:FF:EE:EE:FF:FF:FF:EE:EE:FF:FF:FF:EE:EE:FF:FF:FF REM Replace “-d” with your ssl finger print set ESX=esxcli.exe -s %VCASERVER% -u %VCAUSERNAME% -p

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Transfering Files between Koko and HiPerGator

The fastest and easiest way to transfer files between Koko and HiPerGator is to use Globus (https://globus.org) Once connected to Globus.org You can use the following service names to transfer. UF HiPerGator: UFRC HiPerGatorFAU Koko: fauhpc#koko

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Upgrading Tensorflow

Upgrading Tensorflow in your profile is fairly easy just execute the following command to update to the latest version available for your current version of Python. pip3 install –upgrade –user tensorflow If you need to update your Python version you

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Requesting access to HiPerGator

Requesting a UF Gator link account. Request an FAU Research Computing (link) Request a UF account (Gator link) and enroll in 2FA  (link) Enter Rhian Resnick as the sponsor. Enter rresnick@fau.edu as the sponsor(s) email addresses. Once you have been granted

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Hadoop on newest version of KoKo

  Running Hadoop on the HPC cluster Version 3.0 now requires the use of MyHadoop. The following example will create a four node hadoop instance and run a sample program. #!/bin/bash ################################################################################ #  slurm.sbatch – A sample submit script for SLURM that

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Cluster Connections

OIT is working to improve connection reliability to the HPC cluster. Starting in Fall 2020 all connections to the HPC cluster will be balanced through a cluster of load balancers. The load balancers as the name imply balancer user requests

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Fastqc

Fastqc is a quality control tool for high throughput sequence data. It may be started from a remote desktop session on koko-login.hpc.fau.edu using the following terminal commands. Batch Job: Create a file named fastqc.sh and paste the following into it.

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OVirt Remote Viewer

Users of Ovirt may wish to utilize the Remote Viewer as it provided improved usability. The following page provides instructions for several operating systems. Windows: Install https://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-x64-8.0.msi Mac OS: Install homebrew the missing package manager for Mac OS X. (https://brew.sh/)

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Engineering Queue GPU’s

The College of Engineering donated some servers to the cluster primary for the use of Engineering Students. As these machines require some custom configuration they must be accessed with their own partitions. Partitions:  Public: shortq7-eng-gpu Private: longq7-eng-gpu (only members of

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Password Sync

If you have changed your NETID password you will need to sync it up by visiting https://access.hpc.fau.edu/rc. This tool will push the password to any Research Computing systems that you have access to.

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