Troubleshooting

 

Failed to Login

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Cannot load modules

If you have added anything recently to your .bashrc file related to modules, it could have altered modules paths. To reset your .bashrc file:

# Go to your HOME cd   # Backup current profile mv .bashrc .bashrc.ORIG   # Copy the files cp /etc/skel/.profile . cp /etc/skel/.bashrc .   # Edit new .bashrc and add lines you need from your old file

New & Noteworthy - June 2020

  • Only on Ubuntu 18.04 sessions
    • ANSYS 20.1
    • Synopsys 202
  • Machine Learning tools installed on system Python 3
    • JupyterLab 2.1.1
    • TensorFlow 2.2.0
    • Keras 2.3.1
    • scikit-learn 0.23.1
    • PyTorch 1.5.0
    • PyTorchVision 0.6.0
    • cudNN 7.6.4 based on CUDA 10.1
    • TensorRT based on nvinfer 6.0.1
  • New pip packages installed on system Python 3
    • ipython 7.14.0
    • matplotlib 3.2.1
    • numpy 1.18.4
    • scipy 1.4.1
  • GSL, Boost, EXIV2 libraries for Python 3
  • ParaView 5.8.0
  • RStudio 1.3.959
  • ThermoViewer 3.0.6 for Linux
  • Singularity 3.5.2
  • Go 1.14.3
  • Slack Desktop 4.4.3
  • DropBox 2020.03.04
  • VirtualBox 6.0.22
  • Vagrant 2.2.9

New & Noteworthy - May 2020

  • Views has been upgraded to version 2019.0
  • DCV has been upgraded to 2019.1
  • 4 nodes are running Ubuntu 18.04
    • All nodes will be migrated to this operating system by end of summer.
    • ​Only Python 3 is installed on these nodes. Please upgrade your Python 2 scripts.
  • 12 users share 84 cores, 768 GB of RAM, 1 P40 NVIDIA GPU. This GPU is great for Machine Learning not only for 3D rendering.
  • NVIDIA driver has been upgraded to 440 with CUDA 10.
  • Upgraded scientific application stack to support Ubuntu 18.04.
    • Rollout to physical workstations by end of May.
    • ​This is being served from an all SSD back-end so loading your favorite app is blazing fast.
    • AVIZO, Gaussian 16, and GaussView do not work on Ubuntu 18.04, please launch an Ubuntu 16.04 session to use these.
      • We're working with Gaussian vendor to get binaries for Ubuntu 18.04.
      • We're working with KSL and Thermo Fisher to make AVIZO 2019.4 work on Ubuntu 18.04.
    • New packages installed on the system:
      • ​plink
      • qgis
      • git-lfs
      • Visit 3.1.1
      • ParaView 5.8.0
      • Singularity 3.3.0-1
      • nvidia-docker
      • kubectl
      • docker-compose
      • meshlab
      • cloudcompare

New & Noteworthy - From April 2019 until May 2019

  • Remote Workstations were moved from SCC (Scientific Compute Center) in Bldg 1 to BDC (Business Data Center) in Bldg 14. This data center is available 24×365 (24 hours a day for 365 days a year), meaning that these workstations are always on. You can still work on them even while SCC is shutdown for yearly maintenance or they have to upgrade it for the clusters, etc.
  • The underlying Remote Workstations hardware has been refreshed. These are the new specs:
    • Memory was increased up to 768GB.
    • Servers are using latest & greatest INTEL CPUs; everything is faster now!
    • GPU is now NVIDIA P40 which ships CUDA compute capability 6.1 that allows you to run Neural Networks, Machine Learning workloads, etc.
  • DCV was updated to version 2017.4. This version finally ships a macOS client; download latest DCV clients
  • NVIDIA driver has been updated to version 418.56
  • GCC, OpenMPI, MPICH, INTEL compilers automatically export these variables:
    • CC
    • CXX
    • FC
    • F90
    • F77
  • We have added some new applications to our app stack, just for you 
    • OpenFOAM 6 (including its own ParaView 5.4)
    • Gaussian 16-B-0.1
  • We have added the latest versions of some applications:
    • VirtualBox 6
    • ADF 2017 & 2018
    • GCC 7.4.0 & 8.3.0
    • Matlab R2019a
    • Mathematica 12.0
    • ENVI 5.1 with IDL 8.3; MCTK is enabled by default
    • Cubist 2.0.7
    • ModTran 5.2.3
    • Intel Parallel Studio 2019
  • The following applications have been added to KAUST Menu:
    • Mathematica 12.0
    • XCrySDen 1.5.60
    • IDL 8.3
    • AVIZO 9.7
    • ADF 2018
    • ANSYS sub-menu containing
      • CFX
      • Chemkin
      • Fluent
      • IcePak
      • Workbench
    • MATLAB sub-menu containing
      • R2016b
      • R2018b
      • R2019a

New & Noteworthy - From November 2018 until March 2019

  • We have added some new applications to our app stack, just for you 
    • Py-thirdorder 1.1.1
    • Topspin 4.0.5
    • NMRFAM-Sparky
    • Miniconda
    • Wien 17.1
  • You can find both Topspin and NMRFAM-Sparky in our KAUST Menu.
  • We have added the latest versions of some applications:
    • R 3.5.2
    • Comsol 5.4
    • Matlab R2018b
    • Quantum Espresso 6.3
    • Vesta 3.4.6
    • Wannier 3.0.0
    • Intel Parallel Studio 2019
  • Our new IT Data Storage System DataWaha was mounted on the remote workstations for your easy access.

New & Noteworthy - September & October, 2018

  • We updated our scheduler to the latest version Slurm 18, thus you will no longer lose your running sessions when we do any change to the system, and you will find it much faster 
  • New cool applications and tools were added to the system:
    • Boltztrap
    • Dropbox
    • Gimp
    • Gmt
    • Google Chrome
    • Graphviz
    • Hiphive
    • Phono3py
  • Newer versions of the following applications are now available on our app stack:
    • Ansys ⇒ v. 18.2
    • Chemkin ⇒ v. 18.2
    • VMD ⇒ v. 1.9.3
  • You can now find these apps in our KAUST Menu:
    • Ansys Workbench
    • Cadence
    • CST
    • Synopsys
  • Now you can run Windows applications using Wine

New & Noteworthy - August, 2018

  • More applications and development tools are now available on system:
    • Paraview
    • Visit
    • Pycharm
    • p4vasp
    • RStudio
  • The new KAUST Menu was added to the startup menu, where you can find the latest installed versions of the most commonly used desktop applications for the ease of reaching and lunching them.

Remote Scientific Workstations-4

  • More applications to be added on system and in KAUST Menu. Stay Tuned

New & Noteworthy - July, 2018

  • Remote Workstations are now based on Ubuntu 16.04 with latest XFCE providing an improved user experience.
  • The workstations are shipped with a bunch of development tools:
    • Python 2.7 and Python 3.5, with important add-ons (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, scikits-learn, etc.)
    • IPython
    • Ruby
  • Scientific application stack is now available over a 10Gbit/sec pipe. Loading applications should be much faster than before.
  • A new application stack is now available, where applications are installed using SpackSpack supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers. You can use Spack to install applications in your HOME.
  • You can now install applications in your HOME easily by using Linuxbrew; please check our Linuxbrew wiki page to learn how to use it.
  • Please contact us through Research Computing Slack to report issues, ask for new software, give feedback, or just to say hi ;-)