User Guides
Information and instructions on system access, computing environment, running jobs, debugging and tuning performance for our computing resources at ALCF.
How to Get an Allocation
How to get an Allocation: You must be awarded an allocation in order to use our computer systems. Please start here to learn about our different types of programs and to find the best one that suits our needs.
New User Guide
New User Guide: Once you get your allocation award and have requested your project, the guide will walk you through the first steps of logging in, compiling, running jobs and learning how to manage your ALCF account.
Accounts & Access
Accounts & Access: Everything you need to know about your ALCF account and logging into our computer systems.
Allocations
Allocations: Learn how to manage your allocation, how to determine CPU-hours and a how-to for Clusterbank (cbank).
Blue Gen/Q Versus Blue Gene/P
Blue Gene/Q Versus Blue Gene/P: A guide on the key differences between Mira & Intrepid.
Mira/Cetus/Vesta
Mira/Cetus/Vesta: The user guide for our new BG/Q systems. Use this guide to get an overview of the system, understand the file systems, learn how to transfer data, compile & link, queue &run a job, get help with debugging and performance tuning and find paths to software and libraries.
Tukey
Tukey: The primary purpose of Tukey is to analyze and visualize data produced on Mira and shares the same software environment and file systems as Mira.
Intrepid/Challenger/Surveyor
Intrepid/Challenger/Surveyor: The user guide for our new BG/P systems. Use this guide to get an overview of the system, understand the file systems, learn how to transfer data, compile & link, queue &run a job, get help with debugging and performance tuning and find paths to software and libraries.
Eureka/Gadzooks
Eureka/Gadzooks: Eureka, is for analyzing the huge data sets generated on Intrepid. Gadzooks, a visualization test and deployment system.