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1. Obtain LANTA access

In short, there 3 steps as follows

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Please see Get Access to LANTA for more detail. Please note that, LANTA account will be sent you to via email 1-3 business days after you join the project.

2. Login to LANTA

Please see Login to LANTA for detail instruction. In short, you must have

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  1. (Only required for the first time) Setting up Google authenticator for 2FA by either using provided Q code or manually enter secret key.

  2. Using SSH client to login to LANTA with following detail.

    1. Remote host: lanta.nstda.or.th

    2. username: your LANTA username received in step 1 Obtain LANTA access.

  3. Entering your password.

  4. Entering 6 digits 2FA.

  5. For some circumstance (e.g. first logging in), you will be forced to change your password.

  6. The connection between SSH session and LANTA is now established. You are in the LANTA frontend node, please carefully read frontend usage policy (LANTA Frontend Usage Policy ) to avoid any policy violation.

3. Working space on LANTA

There are 3 working spaces on LANTA, see Storage quota for more detail.

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The first one (line 5) is your user home directory with a limit of 100 GB. This is your landing location when logging in. The second one (line 6) is your project directory with a limit of 5 TB. If you are the member of more than one project, all of project details will be listed as well.

4. Resource credit

To check remaining HPC resources, use sbalance command. On LANTA, SHr (service unit hour) is a unit that we use for HPC resource credit. SHr is equivalent to 1 hour of a compute node (128 CPU cores), see Checking remaining resources for more details.

Code Block
hpcuser@x3002c0s9b0n0:~> sbalance
Account    Descr   Remaining(%)  Allocation(SHr)   Remaining(SHr)        Used(SHr)
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lt123456  myproj        98.94%         26041.67         25764.53           277.14

5. File transfer

Using data transfer node (transfer.lanta.nstda.or.th) instead of frontend node (lanta.nstda.or.th) and follow instructions in File transfers.

6. Compiler and Software

In LANTA, there are preinstalled software that manage by Environment module system (Lmod), see Software management system for more detail. In short, you can use the following command to load a specify software.

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To install software/library by your own, please see Software installation guideline. Most of major compilers are available on LANTA.

6. Running your job

LANTA queueing system is managed by Slurm. In general, there are 6 major steps for running a job.

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