The Scalable Computing Software (SCS) Lab manages several cluster computers to support the group's research. Cluster resources within the lab are controlled via a batch queuing system that coordinates all jobs running on the clusters. The nodes should not be accessed directly, as the scheduler will allocate resources such as CPU, Memory and Storage exclusively to each job.
Once you have access to use the cluster, you can submit, monitor, and cancel jobs from the head nodes, ares.cs.iit.edu and hec.cs.iit.edu. These two nodes should not be used for any compute-intensive work, however you can get a shell on a compute node simply by starting an interactive job. You can use the cluster by starting batch jobs or interactive jobs. Interactive jobs give you access to a shell on one of the nodes, from which you can execute commands by hand, whereas batch jobs run from a given shell script in the background and automatically terminate when finished.
If you encounter any problems using the cluster, please send us a request via
scslab@iit.edu and be as specific as you can when describing your issue.