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Frequently Asked Questions

Some common questions, errors, and problems are categorized below. You can also use the search box above to search the user guide for any issues you are seeing.

About Gautschi

Can you remove me from the Gautschi mailing list?

Your subscription in the Gautschi mailing list is tied to your access on Gautschi. The only way to remove you from the Gautschi mailing list is to remove your Gautschi access. If you are no longer using your account on Gautschi, your access can be removed by contacting your group PI or manager. Your Gautschi mailing list subscription will then be removed overnight. Be sure to make a copy of any data you wish to keep first.

How is Gautschi different than other Community Clusters?

Gautschi differs from the previous Community Clusters in many significant aspects:

  • Gautschi has a unique sales protocol. While previous clusters were available for sale based on compute resources, Gautschi is sold based on compute resource hours.
  • Gautschi has eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs, each with 80 GB of GPU memory.

Learn more from Gautschi overview.

Do I need to do anything to my firewall to access Gautschi?

No firewall changes are needed to access Gautschi. However, to access data through Network Drives (i.e., CIFS, "Z: Drive"), you must be on a Purdue campus network or connected through VPN.

Does Gautschi have the same home directory as other clusters?

The Gautschi home directory and its contents are exclusive to Gautschi cluster front-end hosts and compute nodes. This home directory is not available on other RCAC machines but Gautschi. There is no automatic copying or synchronization between home directories.

At your discretion you can manually copy all or parts of your main research computing home to Gautschi using one of the suggested transfer methods in this section.

Applications

How should I launch common GUI applications on Gautschi?

Users who have access to Gautschi can use ThinLinc to launch an interactive jobs. Refer to this user guide section to learn how to setup Thinlinc for Gautschi.

  • In the upper left corner, the user can click on Applications, then Cluster Software, where multiple software options are listed with interactive SLURM jobs.

    Thinlinc Application
    Thinlinc application menu

  • The GUI launcher starts with a window that prompts the user to select the desired version of the software to launch and guides them through the job submission process.

    Thinlinc Application2
    Thinlinc application selector

  • The GUI launcher also makes it easy for users to view available accounts, the maximum wall times for each account, and the available computing resources with multiple help options at the bottom.

    Thinlinc Partition
    Partition selection

  • After choosing the partition, the user is prompted to provide the computing resource they need for their job to run while adjusting the memory for them automatically.

    Thinlinc Resource
    Resource options for your job

  • After requesting the resources the job will be submitted and waiting for slurm to allocate the computing resources.

    Thinlinc Application
    Interactive job has been submitted