Selachii Environment

Selachii Academic Cluster – Provides faculty and student access to computational resources for projects involving large datasets within a secure and controlled environment.

Tip: Before running commands, submitting jobs, or using software on the Academic supercomputer, understand our core Policies.

Details: Selachii Academic Cluster
Credentials: NSU Account
Access & Allocations: Policies
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Default Shell: Bash Data Transfer: SCP and SFTP

We encourage new users to carefully read our documentation on Selachii and available resources, especially users who may be unfamiliar with high-performance computing, Unix-based systems, or batch job scheduling (Slurm). Understanding what your jobs do on the cluster helps keep Selachii running smoothly for everyone.

Do not run resource-intensive jobs on the Selachii login node. Submit your jobs to Slurm, and use the interactive queue and Slurm Job Scripts . Jobs with insufficient resource allocations interfere with cluster performance and responsible for those jobs may be suspended.
Stage data for running jobs exclusively in the /scratch file system, which is optimized for fast data access. Any files used as input for your jobs must first be transferred to /scratch. The /home file system is optimized for mass data storage and is therefore slower-access. Using /home while running jobs degrades the performance of the entire system.
Include your projectID in your job submissions. Access to Selachii Computing resources is managed on a project basis. Any NSU faculty or Principal Investigator (PI) can request a new project. All members of a project share that project’s resource allocations.

Connecting to Selachii: To access the Selachii Academic cluster, open a secure shell (SSH) connection to academichpc.nova.edu and log in with your active nsu account. Information about your disk quotas – then the SSH command prompt.