Downloading the MATLAB installer: Log into the MathWorks website here. Select ‘Get started today’ under the Download MATLAB section. Login with your FAU NetID and password. If you have a MathWorks account, click ‘Log In’ under the Log in to…
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Matlab Installation and Licensing
WARNING: This guide is not intended for student or individual installations of Matlab. Please refer to the MathWorks website here for installation instructions for students or individual systems. To install Matlab on your Windows or Linux system, please use the…
Koko Desktop Environments
Koko has 3 Desktop Environments available. MATE and Openbox. MATE is based on Gnome, the previous Desktop Environment for Koko. It looks and works in much the same was as the previous Desktop for Koko. Openbox is a very streamlined…
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Create SLURM launchers for Koko
launcher_creator.py is a convenience utility that automates creating a launcher for FAU clusters based on parameters (and commands) you give it. This tool and most of the following document is based on posts created at TACC. (https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/bioiteam/launcher_creator.py) launcher_creator.py outputs a…
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Tensorflow
Tensorflow utilizing GPU or CPU computation is available on Koko. Partition information can be found here. Please use these instructions for allocating resources: GPU Allocate resources with the command salloc -p <partition> –gres=gpu The gres:gpu number indicates how many GPUs you’d like…
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Connecting to Koko with PuTTY
These instructions indicate that you should connect to “koko.fau.edu”. Please use “koko-login.hpc.fau.edu” instead. [embeddoc url=”http://hpc2.fau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Connecting-to-Koko-PUTTY.pptx” download=”all” viewer=”google”]
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Matlab
KoKo 3.0 (koko-login.hpc.fau.edu) Several versions of Matlab are available on Koko. To check which versions are available, please use the command ‘module avail matlab’ in a terminal on Koko. To use Matlab, please use the following commands: If you wish…
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Intel Compilers
To use any of the available Intel Compilers, please use the following procedure: Load the appropriate Intel Compiler module ‘module load intel/compiler/64/<version>’. The versions currently available are 14 (2013), 2015u1, and 2017u1. To see a list of all available Intel…
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Comsol
Comsol 5.2 is available to all College of Engineering Faculty and Students. To use Comsol, please use the following: Connect to Koko-login.hpc.fau.edu via Remote Desktop or ssh with x11 forwarding as show here. Open a terminal session. ssh to the…
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Gaussian
Instructions for getting started with Gaussian on FAU’s High-Performance Computing Cluster Request an account to access the HPC facility. – Go to https://helpdesk.fau.edu/TDClient/Requests/ServiceCatalog?CategoryID=1480 – Request HPC user account. Download software to enable remote access to Koko from the desktop. – E.g., Download…
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