We have our home directory servers. They have been used for computational tasks in the past. One caveat is that a system administrator may have to kill the computing job if it affects the other users too much. That occurs when the computing job “hogs” too many resources and everything slows down on the server. In extreme cases, the server can grind to a halt. Using the ‘nice’ command can help with that.
Another possibility is one of our lab computers (pictured right). They are quite powerful with 10 computing cores and 32GB of RAM memory. They have MATLAB, python3, python2, FORTRAN, and many other computing tools pre-installed.
You will need a SOEST account to access either of the servers or the lab computers. You will use that account to log into the systems. For example:
ssh <your SOEST account name>@kahi.soest.hawaii.edu
ssh <your SOEST account name>@uila.soest.hawaii.edu
ssh <your SOEST account name>@vision12.soest.hawaii.edu (the lab workstations are named vision01 through vision15)
Department faculty may also have computational resources that they can make available.
Consider how much data storage you need and how long you will need the resource. How will you do your computation? Not all systems have MATLAB. Contact our IT Specialist if you need more information.