Stokes CPU Cluster

UCF Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC) houses high-performance computing resources subsidized by the UCF Provost and VP for Research. The Stokes cluster consists of 6,600 compute cores. ARCC also provides 600TB of configured storage and 20Gbps connection to the UCF campus core network. Please visit ARCC User Registration to get started.

For more information please visit: https://arcc.ist.ucf.edu/index.php/resources/stokes/about-stokes 

ARCC Tutorials

ARCC provides tutorials to help users familiarize themselves with accessing and managing their allocation on either Stokes or Newton. Learn how to SSH into ARCC (Stokes or Newton), load the necessary modules for a job, submit a job with Slurm, and transfer files with either SCP or Globus.

• Logging into ARCC Clusters
  • Logging into ARCC, first time setup (ARCC Website)
  • Connect with Windows and MobaXTerm (YouTube video, 5 minutes)
  • SSH on a Mac or Linux (YouTube video, 4 minutes)
• Modules
  • Explanation of modules, their purpose, and use (ARCC Website)
  • Listing, loading, and unloading modules (YouTube video, 4 minutes)
• Job Submission within the ARCC
  • Job submission and management, interactive sessions, and quotas (ARCC Website)
  • Checking node availability and queued jobs with Slurm (YouTube video, 2 minutes)
  • Submitting a job with Slurm (YouTube video, 12 minutes)
• Transferring files
  • Transferring files to and from ARCC with Secure Copy (ARCC Website)
  • Transferring files to and from ARCC with Globus (ARCC Website)
  • Uploading files to the cluster with FileZilla on a Mac (YouTube video, 5 minutes)