⚠️ 2021-11-01: The TIPCC cluster is retired. If you're looking for a modern cluster, please see our new C4 cluster, which is in production since January 11, 2021.

Development / Prototyping

Although you should always run analyses via the job scheduler, there are times when you may need to develop parts of it interactively at the command-line prompt. For instance, you may need to install some software, a few R packages, or run some quick tests on your new pipeline. Wynton provides development nodes dedicated for such short-term usages and that are configured similarly to the compute nodes.

Please do not run your real-world analysis on the development nodes. Instead run it as a job via the scheduler - this will assert that your analysis runs as fast as possible and with all the resources it needs. For further instruction, see the getting-started page Submit Job to Cluster.

Instructions

To access a development node,

make sure you are logged in to the cluster, and
type ssh n6 and press ENTER.

Example

From one of the login nodes, do:

[alice@cclc01 ~]$ ssh n6
[alice@n6 ~]$ 

As from the login nodes, it is possible to submit jobs also from the development nodes.