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Overview
The Advanced Research Computing (ARC) group facilitates access and support of High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources in general and specifically, monsoon. Cluster resources are available to NAU faculty and staff for use in their research projects, and for students who are sponsored by a research faculty. Sponsorship of students implies that the sponsor is responsible for ensuring acceptable use of cluster resources by the sponsored individual.
Access to Monsoon can be obtained by submitting a New Monsoon User Request form. Once you have an account, you may login using ssh with your NAU credentials.
For more information on how resources are allocated on Monsoon, visit our page on resource allocation.
/common
- This is the cluster “common” area.
- Cluster dependencies reside here as well as areas for users to share contributions (contrib)
/scratch
- 450TB
- This is the primary shared working storage
- Write/read your temporary files, logs, and final products here
- 30 day retention period on files, emails sent at 28 days for warning – no quotas
/projects
- 500TB
- 5TB of free storage per faculty member (more can be purchased)
- This is a long-term storage solution
- Built on NFS for enterprise-grade data integrity, scale, and performance
- 30 Gbps throughput
/packages
- Packages and modules
/home
- Keep scripts and other small files here
- This area is not meant for heavy writes like temp files, logs, and checkpoint files
- This area is snapshotted twice a a day and a total of 4 snapshots are kept here: /home/.snapshot
- 10G quota
/tmp
120GB – Local node storage
All storage areas are available around campus off of monsoon via SMB by visiting \\shares.hpc.nau.edu\cirrus.
– List the available modules on Monsoon: “module avail”
– List the currently loaded modules in your login session: “module list”
– Load a module: “module load <module>”