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This wiki is the main documentation source for information about the Academic Leiden Interdisciplinary Cluster Environment (ALICE) cluster. ALICE is the research computing facility of the partnership Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center. It is available to any researcher from both partners. In this wiki, we will introduce the ALICE cluster in detail.

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About ALICE

This wiki is the main documentation source for information about the Academic Leiden Interdisciplinary Cluster Environment (ALICE) cluster. ALICE is the research computing facility of the partnership Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center. It is available to any researcher from both partners. In this wiki, we will introduce the ALICE cluster in detail. We assume you know your way around in a terminal session and that you will responsibly use the cluster and respect the available resources. Remember that a cluster runs many different processes submitted by many different users. If you are not sure what you are doing, ask your administrator before submitting very intensive jobs.

Research Acknowledgement

We request that you acknowledge the use of the ALICE facilities in all publications and presentations which use any results generated through your use of the ALICE clusters and that you send us copies of publications (or provide links) on request. The following acknowledgement can be used in papers:

"This work was performed using resources provided by the Academic Leiden Interdisciplinary Cluster Environment (ALICE)."

Why

Introduction

Future plans

Costs overview

Results

Hardware description

Accessing software

Data storage

Current Status Overview

User Guides

• Getting an account
• Getting Support on ALICE
• Connecting to ALICE
• More on login nodes
• Quickstarts
  • Login
  • Data storage
  • Modules
  • .bashrc
  • Compiling
  • Running
  • Problems
• User stories
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Mac OS
  • First (parallel) job
• File transfer to and from ALICE
  • File transfer from Linux
  • File transfer from Windows
  • File transfer from Mac OS
• Faq/ troubleshoot
• Tips & Tricks

General Documentation

• General documentation
  • System description
    • Basic concepts
    • Hardware
    • Software
    • Data storage
  • HPC Software
    • Scheduler
    • Modules
  • Policies
    • Introduction
    • Access policy
    • Acknowledging ALICE
    • Costs overview
    • Service Levels
    • Quality of Service
    • Privacy Policy

Advanced Use

• More in-depth
  • Security considerations
  • Running jobs
    • How to run jobs
    • Submit
    • Control, inspect
    • Kill, suspend
    • Interactive jobs
    • How jobs are scheduled (queries, prio)
  • My first
    • Your first job!
    • Your first parallel job?
    • How to manage my data
    • Where to store which data
    • Environment variables
  • Other
    • References and further reading
    • Transferring data
• Software
  • Available software
    • Standard generic software
    • Software by discipline
    • Modules
    • New software
  • Develop your own code
    • Compilers, compiling
    • Checkpointing
    • Libraries, linking
  • Running in parallel
    • Parallel computing
    • Shared, OpenMP
    • Distrib, MPI
  • Software packages
    • Cuda on ALICE
    • Python on ALICE
    • R on ALICE
    • MATLAB on ALICE

Support

• Getting Support
• Acknowledgement
• Getting started with ...
  • HPC
  • Linux

News

• Blogs (JK)

Maintenance announcements

There is no maintenance with downtime planned with downtime.

To maintenance policy

Publications

Identifying Earth-impacting asteroids using an artificial neural network. John D. Hefele, Francesco Bortolussi and Simon Portegies Zwart. Astronomy & Astrophysics, February 2020.