Olympus Academic User Information

This document explains how to use Olympus for ECEN course labs.

Non-GPU limitations:

1. Undergraduate users (academic)

   1. are allowed two simultaneous interactive sessions on the non-GPU compute nodes.  Users can log in to Olympus using ssh with two different sessions and run the proper load-ecen-### command in each ssh session. 

   2. Each interactive session is limited to a maximum of 12 hours.

2. Graduate Users (academic)

   1. are allowed to use up to six cores on the non-GPU compute nodes.  Users can log in to Olympus using ssh with three different interactive sessions and run the proper load-ecen-### command in each ssh session. 

   2. Each interactive session is limited to a maximum of 12 hours.

Requirements to Login to Olympus.

1. You will need an ssh/xwindows client on your computer.

   1. On windows systems, install MobaXTerm personal edition. 

   2. Putty and XMing are also an option for Windows users.

   3. On Macintosh install the XQuartz software.  Detailed instructions for accessing Olympus from off campus can be found here:

Graphical Applications on the Olympus Cluster and ECEN Interactive Machines from Off-Campus

How go login to Olympus

1. Open MobaXTerm on windows or the terminal program on Mac

2. ssh to olympus.ece.tamu.edu, i.e. ssh -Y <netid>@olympus.ece.tamu.edu (replace <netid> with your NetID)

3. Log in using your NetID password

4. You will need to connect to an available compute node.  Enter the proper load-ecen-###command at the prompt and hit return. The command that you will run depends on which course you are taking. The following are valid commands:

   • load-ecen-248

   • load-ecen-350

   • load-ecen-403

   • load-ecen-425

   • load-ecen-449

   • load-ecen-454
load-ecen-468

   • load-ecen-474

   • load-ecen-475

   • load-csce-616

   • load-ecen-620

   • load-ecen-625

   • load-ecen-651

   • load-ecen-655

   • load-ecen-676

   • load-ecen-680

   • load-ecen-704

   • load-ecen-714

   • load-csce-714

   • load-ecen-720

   • load-ecen-749

5. Source the same file that you use in the Zachry Linux Labs and follow the instructions in your Lab manual.