How to Get Access

For all other account requests, please email HPCG@engr.sc.edu

To login into NICK, use the following command:

            ssh -l username nick.engr.sc.edu

SNAP APPLIANCE

The SNAP server is a 1TB NFS device on NICK used for archiving data and temporary data transfers. It is only connected through Ethernet, so throughput would be ineffective if used during job proccesses.

MPI USAGE

Please note that to get effective usage of NICK, you must use the OPENMPI implementation that we provide. Using your own installed version of MPI runs only over Ethernet. Ethernet usage is only to be used for administrative purposes and for transferring data to the NFS device.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT

Users of USC HPCG resources are requested to acknowledge the USC HPCG's computing support in any publications which result from their work. The following form (or appropriate modification) can be used:

"Acknowledgment is made to the University of South Carolina's High Performance Computing Group for the computing time used in this research."

Policies

Resource Policy -  The Daniel and Nick clusters are shared computing resources, therefore, no user is allowed to run a wait or sleep loop and waste valuable computing time. Any jobs that violate this or are hanging will be terminated without notice.

Authorized Key Login Policy - Please do not use authorized keys to connect to Nick. This let's us avoid possible unauthorized access from machines that we are not responsible for.