2. Temple Hardware Access

In 2017 Temple University procured a large new HPC cluster nicknamed Owl’s Nest 2. The previous cluster was eventually disassembled. Parts of this older cluster are now being reused for training purposes.

This course has set up a training environment for up to 10 individual clusters. Each subcluster has a master node, which connects to 3 compute nodes. All nodes are part of a shared Infiniband fabric.

The master nodes, named master1, master2, …, master9, and master10 are behind Temple University’s firewall. To access them, you have to connect to the bastion host set up for this purpose via SSH:

ssh student@training1.hpc.temple.edu -p 666

Access will be given to group members once SSH public keys have been set up and sent to us via email or using this form. The master assigned to you can be found in Groups.

To simplify the SSH connections to the Temple cluster, follow the instructions on SSH Client Configuration.