HPC tricks and tips

Show cluster information

Show all jobs current on the cluster or queue:

qstat -u '*'

Show info about hosts (CPU, memory, etc):

qhost

Why isn't my job running yet?

qstat -j myjobnumber

My internet connection is spotty...and working is well-nigh impossible.

Use a Mosh terminal instead!

Install it locally with conda install -c conda-forge mosh

And use mosh [email protected] instead of ssh [email protected] to get to the cluster.

A warning, mosh does not support X11 applications, so you can't open any GUIs from the command line.