Glossary

Key Points

Introduction	M3 an main HPC cluster at SMU
Accessing the M3 Cluster	M3 can be accessed by an SSh (secure shell) client Terminal using cursor.com Open OnDemand platform
The structure of the M3 Cluster	M3 contains more than 178 interconnected compute nodes a specialized login node runs the SSH server
Storage on M3	users get 200 Gb of backed-up storage in their home directories Users get access to Cold Front allocation work storage scratch storage is not backed up
Transferring files to and from M3	Windows users can use WinSCP for file transfer Mac users can use FileZilla In terminal, use scp (secure copy via ssh)
Running an interactive job on M3	`srun` sends a request for a compute node to the scheduler software available on M2 is organized into modules according to version modules need to be loaded before use

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