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18:44, 6 March 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Ssh alias and ssh-keygen (Created page with "CAS servers support connections using ssh. You may find the following using to use ssh-keygen and ssh alias. === Linux: === Create a public/private key pair with ssh-keygen. ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com" Depending on your use case, you may or may not want to enter a passphrase. If you do use a passphrase it should not be the same as your password for our servers! This should create two files: ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 # private key (keep secr...") Tag: Visual edit
17:57, 25 February 2026 Price talk contribs created page Admin:Orbital (Created page with "To open the camera view on the Orbital radar at Harbour Center enter this link into a browser: http://eosfes.cas.hamptonu.edu/Commander/commander.jnlp or you can add the following line to your ~/.bashrc alias commander='javaws '\''http://eosfes.cas.hamptonu.edu/Commander/commander.jnlp'\''' which will make the command "commander" when you next log in or type "source .bashrc" If the processing tab is filled with red failures and you want to clear them, login as orbi...")
13:29, 12 February 2026 Price talk contribs created page Admin:HC Switch/LAN numbers (Created page with "Room21 Server Room V1 1-1 & 1-2 V2 1-3 & 1-4 V3 1-5 & 1-6 V4 1-7 & 1-8 V5 1-9 & 1-10 V6 1-11 & 1-12 V7 1-13 & 1-14 V8 1-15 & 1-16 V9 1-17 & 1-18 V10 1-19 & 1-20 V11 1-21 & 1-22 V12 1-23 & 1-24 V14 1-27 & 1-28 V15 1-29 & 1-30 Room 22 Control Room V13 1-25 &1-26 Room23 V42 3-36 Room 24 3-37 Room 25 V45 3-35 & 3-38 Offices on the Patch Panel in our Server room Room 4 1...")
16:26, 11 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Access Control Lists (Created page with "For more fine grained control of who can access a directory you may want to use NFS4's Access Control Lists (ACL) Below is an example of making an access control list that will cause a directory to shared between two users (FOO and BAR) such that all future fiels and subdirectories will also be shared by default. id FOO BAR uid=2506(FOO) gid=2506(FOO) groups=2206(FOO) uid=25089(BAR) gid=20089(BAR) groups=25089(BAR) nfs4_getfacl /data/common/FOO/SHARED_WITH_BAR <no...") Tag: Visual edit
21:03, 10 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Python (Created page with "To use python on our system it is recommended to set up a virtual environment for each project so that package requirements for one project do not interfere with those of another project. To properly set up virtual environments so that they will work on both the servers and the cluster compute nodes, all files need to be in your /data/common/${USER} directory, not your home directory. Symbolic links in /data/common will not suffice, however symbolic links to these di...") Tag: Visual edit
21:19, 5 February 2026 User account Shak.karim talk contribs was created automatically
19:40, 5 February 2026 User account Kevin.herrera talk contribs was created automatically
18:43, 5 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page MATLAB (Created page with "The current latest installed matlab executable can be found at "/data/common/software/bin/matlab". To submit a hello world matlab job to the pirate cluster, from the pirate server use the following sbatch file: #!/bin/bash") Tag: Visual edit
18:36, 5 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Admin:Tiamat (Created page with "Useful commands (run on vhead1 as root): scyld-modimg -i AlmaImage --chroot Purpose: Modify the compute-node image persistently Explanation: Downloads the ClusterWare-managed image (AlmaImage), unpacks it, and drops you into a chroot environment. Any changes made here (e.g., dnf install) become part of the boot image used by stateless compute nodes. scyld-nodectl -i cn01,cn02,cn07,cn08,cn09,cn10,cn11,cn12,cn13 reboot Purpose: Rolling reboot excluding specific nodes...") Tag: Visual edit
17:24, 4 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Available Software (Created page with "In general the servers available for users have Alma Linux 9 installed. The GNU Compiling Collection (GCC) is available for compiling C, C++, and Fortran code. Individuals wishing to use python are advised to use individual virtual environments, instead of the system wide install of python, for running existing python based codes or for their software development. MATLAB is available for use as "/data/common/software/bin/matlab" The pirate cluster uses slurm for j...") Tag: Visual edit
01:28, 4 February 2026 User account Mariel.friberg talk contribs was created automatically
21:33, 3 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page JUPYTER (Created page with "First open a terminal and update the password with "passwd". To use jupyter, you only need a web browser. You go to https://jupyter.cas.hamptonu.edu/ On the left hand side are the files in your home directory. On the right will be a launcher. If you open the terminal it will allow you to do commands, although it does not allow xwindows to be used, so no GUIs. You can open ipynb files which will should work, but may need a kernel other then the default pytho...") Tag: Visual edit
21:02, 3 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs moved page Startup Tutorials to Tutorials without leaving a redirect
21:01, 3 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Onboarding Guide (Created page with "This page contains login instructions for various CAS entry points. All systems use the same username and password as this wiki. === First steps to take: === # Log into https://jupyter.cas.hampton.edu and open a terminal or ssh into 137.198.56.59 (see below) # change your password by running the command "passwd". This will require you to enter your old password and your new password twice. === SSH: === How to ssh into a specific computer depends on whether you are o...") Tag: Visual edit
20:42, 3 February 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Help-desk (Created page with "Help requests should be sent to help@cas.hamptonu.edu which will generate a request ticket. Users may view open tickets by logging in to https://rt.cas.hamptonu.edu/") Tag: Visual edit
17:34, 23 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs deleted page CAS:Acceptable Use Guidelines (content was: "Acceptable Use Guidelines for CAS Computing Resources Purpose This document defines acceptable use of computing resources operated or managed by the Hampton University Center for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS). These resources include, but are not limited to, high performance computing clusters, JupyterHub services, data storage systems, and associated login or application servers....", and the only contributor was "Mcnabb" (talk))
17:34, 23 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs undeleted page CAS:Acceptable Use Guidelines (2 revisions)
17:32, 23 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs deleted page CAS:Acceptable Use Guidelines (content was: "Acceptable Use Guidelines for CAS Computing Resources Purpose This document defines acceptable use of computing resources operated or managed by the Hampton University Center for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS). These resources include, but are not limited to, high performance computing clusters, JupyterHub services, data storage systems, and associated login or application servers....", and the only contributor was "Mcnabb" (talk))
17:30, 23 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs deleted page Acceptable Use Guidelines (content was: "#REDIRECT CAS:Acceptable Use Guidelines", and the only contributor was "Mcnabb" (talk))
17:29, 23 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page CAS:Acceptable Use Guidelines (Created page with "# Acceptable Use Guidelines for CAS Computing Resources ## Purpose This document defines acceptable use of computing resources operated or managed by the Hampton University Center for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS). These resources include, but are not limited to, high performance computing clusters, JupyterHub services, data storage systems, and associated login or application servers. The intent of this document is to provide clear, minimal expectations for responsible...")
17:27, 23 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs moved page Acceptable Use Guidelines to CAS:Acceptable Use Guidelines
17:25, 23 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page High Performance Computing (Created page with "====== Below are pages to get you started: ====== Account request process : Requirements and processes for requesting a user account. Acceptable Use Guidelines : Policy document for all users of CAS computing systems. Onboarding Guide : step-by-step access instructions. Startup Tutorials : Training resources for using Jupyter lab, HPC cluster, and various software tools. Available Software : List of available software and modules and process for r...") Tag: Visual edit
19:56, 22 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Acceptable Use Guidelines (Created page with " = Acceptable Use Guidelines for CAS Computing Resources = == Purpose == This document defines acceptable use of computing resources operated or managed by the Hampton University Center for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS). These resources include, but are not limited to, high performance computing clusters, JupyterHub services, data storage systems, and associated login or application servers. The intent of this document is to provide clear, minimal expectations for respons...") Tag: Visual edit
18:29, 22 January 2026 Price talk contribs moved page Software to Admin:Software without leaving a redirect
18:22, 22 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs moved page Unified Ceilometer Network to Admin:Unified Ceilometer Network without leaving a redirect
18:06, 22 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page Startup Tutorials (Created page with "[https://wiki.cas.hamptonu.edu/HPC HPC] : Information regarding the use of our High Performance Computing clusters. [https://wiki.cas.hamptonu.edu/Jupyter Jupyter] : Information on the use of Jupyter notebooks on our jupyter hub.") Tag: Visual edit
17:55, 22 January 2026 Mcnabb talk contribs created page WIKI Information (Moved Default wiki info from Main page) Tag: Visual edit
15:07, 20 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page 02 signal.ipynb (Created page with "At this point it should tell you that it has installed the kernelspec in some subdirectory of your home directory You will likely need to reload the page in your web browser. You will need to choose the kernel by clicking on kernel->change_kernel and selecting Python(cure2025) Alternatively select the kernel in the upper right corner of the tab <pre> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np import scipy.stats as stats </pre> <pre> fig = plt.figure(figsize=(4, 2...")
14:59, 20 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page 01 python setup.ipynb (Created page with "In your terminal: we need to set the pkg cache to your own directory, you only need to do this once: <pre> mkdir -p /data/common/${USER}/.conda ln -s /data/common/${USER}/.conda ~/.conda </pre> cat <<'EOT' >> .condarc pkgs_dirs: - /data/common/${USER}/.conda/pkgs EOT #note that you will need to change ${USER} to be your username #failure to do the above will result in a lot of warnings attempting to access the shared pkg cache. #initiate conda source /data/comm...")
14:54, 20 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page 00 setup.ipynb (Created page with "#Log into jupyter.cas.hamptonu.edu #username: first.last #password: 1username #open a terminal and run the following commands: #update your password passwd #create a symbolic link to the /data/common directory ln -s /data/common/ ~/common #copy the cure 2025 directory into your home directory rsync -ai /data/common/cure2025/ ~/cure2025/ #change into the cure2025/jupyter directory cd ~/cure2025/jupyter #list the files ls #on the left hand side descend into t...")
13:36, 20 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page New User Onboard Instructions (Created page with "username:firstname.lastname pasword:1firstname.lastname You can ssh into firstname.lastname@137.198.56.59 and after you do, so please run "passwd" immediately to update your password. You can use sftp to the same server to upload files to your home directory or a subdirectory. If the files are particularly large, you may wish to upload them to /data/common/firstname.lastname/ instead.")
19:10, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Admin:New PC Setup (Created page with "Win11 update/Inventory Instructions Fill out the spreadsheet provided with the following information. Please fill out this information as you go for more accuracy • End User Name/ Dept. • Computer name • Service tag # • OS Version • Model • Office Version • MDM onboarded • Lab computer • Desk phone extension • Notes 1. Enter the end user’s name and the dept. the work in on the spreadsheet (ex:Firstlast/DoIT) 2. Na...")
13:30, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page MailMan (Created page with "dnf install mailman emacs /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf <pre> # # httpd configuration settings for use with mailman. # ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ <Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Require all granted SSLRequireSSL </Directory> Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public> Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Re...")
13:29, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Purging, Pruning & Deleting Volumes (Created page with "When Data0 gets crowded and need space you have to either purge, prune and delete volumes to get the extra space. Even though you prune or purge, to clear the space you must delete it from the disk. First log into the Bacula console <pre> *bconsole </pre> type the following to see all the volumes <pre> *list volumes </pre> Look for old or empty volumes to delete <pre> *delete </pre> Choose your option and hit enter then choose which volume to delete from and...")
13:29, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Rotate Logs (Created page with "Bacula logs are located in \var\spool\bacula\log and these logs will grow exponentially unless rotated. You can set up a script to limit the logs by using /etc/logrotate.d file this compliments the logrotate.conf file <pre> /var/log/bacula/*.log { weekly rotate 4 notifempty missingok } /var/log/maillog { weekly rotate 4 notifempty missingok } </pre> Return to Bacula")
13:28, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Bacula (Created page with "Rotate Logs Purging, Pruning & Deleting Volumes Return to Software ")
13:28, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Dell firmware updates (Created page with "adapted from: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000130467/update-a-dell-poweredge-driver-or-firmware-directly-from-the-os-windows-and-linux#Linux https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000123359/dell-emc-server-update-utility-suu-guide-and-download#download directly login as root : <pre> mkdir /mnt/iso mount -o loop /data/common/software/downloads/Dell/SUU-LIN64_21.12.200.488.ISO /mnt/iso/ ls -l /mnt/iso/ cd /mnt/iso ./suu -g </pre> Return to Software")
13:27, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page MediaWiki-Alma Linux (Created page with "Install AlmaLinux 9 on Server Set up per Server Setup Step:1 Install the prerequisite OS packages For mediawiki installation on Linux we must first install Web server (Apache) , PHP and Database ( MySQL / MariaDB ). If they are not installed on your system , please use the below command to install : <pre> dnf install -y httpd php php-mysqlnd php-gd php-xml php-intl mariadb-server mariadb php-mbstring php-json dnf module reset php dnf module enable php:8.2 </pre> Setup...")
13:26, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page License Installation for MATLAB (Created page with "You will need the license.lic file that you can download from Mathworks website MATLAB is now installed on pirate under /data/common/software/install/MATLAB/. The license server is setup with a concurrent license so that any machine that mounts that directory can run matlab via: /data/common/software/install/MATLAB/R2024b/bin/matlab. Below are the notes for making the concurrent license work: First stop the license manager <pre> systemctl stop license-manager.se...")
13:26, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page MATLAB Runtime Compiler installation (Created page with "https://www.mathworks.com/help/compiler_sdk/dotnet/install-the-matlab-runtime.html#bvf6b29 Download version that corresponds to our current version of MATLAB: https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler/matlab-runtime.html Example install below: <pre> cd /data/common/software/downloads/MATLAB/ wget https://ssd.mathworks.com/supportfiles/downloads/R2023a/Release/0/deployment_files/installer/complete/glnxa64/MATLAB_Runtime_R2023a_glnxa64.zip unzip -d MATLAB_Runtime_R20...")
13:23, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page MATLAB 2020b and later Flexlicense server installation (Created page with "Installation of MATLAB on Pirate Everything is done with Administrators log in To Install the Network License Manager, you must first activate and obtain the license file then install the license manager software using the MathWorks Installer or manually install using the license manager binaries. The following instructions are for: Activating the network license and obtaining the license file Installing the license manager with the MathWorks Installer fo...")
13:21, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page MATLAB general install procedure (Created page with "replace R2023a everywhere below with the appropriate version name Download file to /data/common/software/downloads/MATLAB if file is named matlab_R2023a_glnxa64.zip then on pirate directly as root: <pre> unzip -d matlab_R2023a_glnxa64 matlab_R2023a_glnxa64.zip cd matlab_R2023a_glnxa64 ./install </pre> If installing a new license server Choose Advance Options Chose install license server when choosing where to install choose the approriate directory: <pre>/data/comm...")
13:18, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Mathworks (Created page with "Current MATLAB License expires at the end of December 2025 MATLAB is a campus license now and managed by Larry Ingram. When installing on server for FLEX license you need to first install the license manager before you install the MATLAB program MATLAB general install procedure MATLAB 2020b and later Flexlicense server installation MATLAB Runtime Compiler installation License Installation for MATLAB Back to the Admin:TEST")
13:18, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Jupyter Hub (Created page with "adapted from the JupyterHub first attempt which worked but would not allow the use of conda virtual environments by individual users and https://professorkazarinoff.github.io/jupyterhub-engr114/doserver/ <h2>On pirate.cas.hamptonu.edu</h2> <h2>On jupyter.cas.hamptonu.edu</h2> setup jupyterhub user <pre> adduser jupyterhub usermod -aG wheel jupyterhub sudo passwd jupyterhub </pre> get miniconda <pre> wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Lin...")
13:17, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Free-IPA (Alma Linux9) (Created page with "Setup dnsmasq first <pre> sudo yum -y install freeipa-server freeipa-server-dns freeipa-client </pre> Interactive installation of FreeIPA server See below for complete prompts you’ll get during installation and expected responses: <pre> $ sudo ipa-server-install </pre> The log file for this installation can be found in /var/log/ipaserver-install.log ============================================================================== This program will set up the IPA Server...")
13:16, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page IPA HTTP Access (Created page with "In order to access IPA interface from your desktop you need to add the IP address to the firewall configuration With Alma Linux you will need to install firewall-config to get a GUI interface <pre> sudo install firewall-config mariadb </pre> We used the Trusted zone and added the http items to it then you need to add the static IP to the source <pre> firewall-cmd --zone=trusted --add-source=IP address </pre> Then don't forget runtime to permanent Return to Admin:TEST")
13:15, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page RT(Request Tracker) (Created page with "https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/ManualInstallation#Installing_and_configuring_the_MariaDB_server Needed to do this to get the compilation to work: <pre> sudo yum install perl-GD perl-GDGraph sudo yum install perl-DBD-MySQL </pre> Once installed you need to edit : /opt/rt5/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm had to drop the rt5 database and run manually: <pre> /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/rt5/local/lib -I/opt/rt5/lib sbin/rt-setup-database --action init --prompt-for-dba-password --dba...")
13:14, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Software (Created page with "RT(Request Tracker) IPA HTTP Access Free-IPA (Alma Linux9) Jupyter Hub Mathworks MediaWiki-Alma Linux Dell firmware updates Bacula MailMan ")
13:09, 6 January 2026 Price talk contribs created page Unified Ceilometer Network (Created page with "1. Let’s create a user. Username: `alg-ucn` 2. Generate an SSH key in order to clone processing server from github. Once we have a public key, I can just put it in the github account that has our production branch and we can clone it over. Let’s clone it in the user home directory. <aside> 📌 If git is not yet installed, we should install that. </aside> 3. Clone repo: `git clone https://github.com/alg-umbc/epa-scripts ~/epa-scripts`...")
18:36, 15 December 2025 Price talk contribs created page Admin:Server Setup (Created page with "You can set everything up at the initial splash screen that comes up on boot Tick box to unlock Root account and also the box to allow for SSH as Root Create SUSER account and tick box for superuser Set password for both SUSER and ROOT run update once you have logged on <pre> dnf -y update dnf install epel-release </pre> <pre> dnf -y install emacs libXp texlive* autofs tcsh </pre> Set up ipa client: <pre> dnf install ipa-client ipa-client-install --do...")

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