FAQs - Clusters

How to install an application on Clusters

Step-1: Download source file(.tar/.tar.gz/.zip) of Application Step-2: Uncompress/Extract the archive fileStep-3: Open the folder & read READ.ME or INSTALL file.Step-4: Follow steps given in above filesStep-5: ./configure --help find parameters for installation

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My Guassian Job is not running on multi-nodes

Prerequisites:  Passwordless login command is run on the Cluster   Also check if the following line is mentioned in your job script set LINDA = `cat $PBS_NODEFILE | uniq | tr '\n' "," | sed

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Enabling passwordless login in clusters

This is mandatory when a NIS user gets access to SERC clusters This is one time enabling to run jobs in execution nodes of clusters. And also in order to run multi nodes jobs there should be passwordless login between nodes. In tyrone-cluster, after users’ login run the below command from terminal csh

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How to submit Ticket for HPC ?

Describing Your HPC Problem: When you submit a request through our ticketing system, it’s important to provide the detailed information that will help us to understand your problem and find the right solutions.   A)

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Unable to submit Gaussian Job on Basic-Clusters

The prerequisite for submitting a Gaussian job on the clusters is that your computational account should be added to Gaussian group.  For requesting to add your computational account to the Gaussian group and to have a localscratch space for storing your job outputs (temporary storage space), kindly send an email to

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Batch Computers at SERC

The details of available clusters in SERC IISc are listed in the table below:    Cluster   Type of Cluster  Number of Cores  Delta

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