File management

Getting your files to and from monsoon

NAU High Performance Computing provides unified home directories and high-speed scratch space to login and compute nodes.  What this means is that once you copy your files onto these areas, all login and compute nodes can access the files immediately. All users are allowed 10GB of disk space in /home. Currently there is a 10TB and 1 million files quota per user on /scratch. To check your quota you may use the lfs quota command. For example, if your username is abc123 you would use the following to check your quota:

[abc123@wind]$ lfs quota -u abc123 /scratch

What follows are sets of instructions for transferring files to and from the file systems residing on Monsoon.

Prerequisites:

Linux and Mac OSX – scp Accordion Closed

If your primary desktop is a Mac or Linux system, you can use the scp command to copy files to and from Monsoon. For example, say you’d like to transfer a file called assembly.py and your desktops name is workstation.lab.nau.edu. On workstation.lab.nau.edu, open up a terminal and run the command:

$ scp ~/path/mywork/assembly.py nauid@monsoon.hpc.nau.edu:~/

Where nauid is your NAU user id.

If you are transferring a whole directory you will do it similarly but with the -r switch like so:

$ scp -r ~/path/mywork/assembly_data
nauid@monsoon.hpc.nau.edu:/scratch/nauid

Mac OSX – SMB / CIFS Accordion Closed

You can also transfer files to Monsoon using a GUI approach with SMB or CIFS.

1. Open the Finder app.
2. Click the Go menu, and click Connect to Server.
3. In the server address box type: smb://shares.hpc.nau.edu/cirrus, then click Connect.

Enter your NAU credentials and click ok. Select the filesystem that you would like to connect to and click ok. From here you can transfer files just as you would using the Finder app.

Connecting to Server snapshot

Windows – SMB / CIFS Accordion Closed

Just like on the Mac, you can transfer files to and from Monsoon using a GUI approach with SMB or CIFS.

1. Open a File Explorer window and type \\shares.hpc.nau.edu\cirrus into the address bar and click enter. Make sure you use the appropriate back-slashes.

Windows SMB/CIFS snapshot

2. Enter your NAU credentials and click ok. From here it should be pretty straight forward transferring your files back and forth to and from Monsoon.