Alan Turing Institute Research Computing Service

The Alan Turing Institute Research Computing Service are data science platforms hosted by EPCC for the Alan Turing Institute.

The Alan Turing Institute Research Computing Service consists of:

• a Helpdesk, run by EPCC.
• the Alan Turing Institute Remote Access Service (Atiras), a Secure Safe Haven with an Intel cluster.

Note: the Cray Urika-GX service was closed on 31st December 2019.

This documentation contains:

• Helpdesk: general information on how to contact the Helpdesk.
• SAFE Documentation: general information on how to use the Turing’s SAFE for helpdesk and support, managing user accounts and project research computing resources, and obtaining resource usage reports.
• Atiras, Secure Safe Haven and Intel cluster User Guide: general information on how to access, connect to and use Atiras.

How we collect, use and share information about your use of the service are explained in the Alan Turing Institute Research Computing Service Personal Data and Privacy Policy.

How the information you provide is used to administer your use of the services through SAFE is explained in the SAFE Privacy Policy.

Contents

Helpdesk

• Alan Turing Institute Research Computing Service Helpdesk
  • EPCC Helpdesk
  • How the helpdesk ticket system works
• Alan Turing Institute Research Computing Service Personal Data and Privacy Policy

SAFE Documentation

• Alan Turing Institute SAFE Overview
  • SAFE for individual users
  • SAFE for project leaders
• SAFE for Individual Users
  • Registering, logging in, passwords
  • User Mailing Options
  • Tracking and Managing Available Resources
  • Miscellaneous
• SAFE for Project Leaders
  • Getting Started
  • Managing your allocated resources
  • Managing Project Users
  • Tracking your Project Usage

Atiras, Secure Safe Haven and Intel cluster User Guide

• Atiras, Secure Safe Haven and Intel cluster
  • Important note
  • Key components
  • Requesting access to Atiras
  • Early Access Service
• Connecting to Atiras
  • Use web browser to access the Atiras portal
  • View your available connections
  • Connect via SSH (secure shell) session
  • Connect via RDP (remote desktop) session
  • Disconnect from SSH (secure shell) session
  • Disconnect from RDP (remote desktop) session
  • After disconnecting from a session
  • Change your Atiras portal password
  • Change your virtual machine password
  • Logout from the Atiras portal
• Using the build arena
  • Run commands as administrator
  • Get software/data/documentation into the virtual machine
  • Deploy a virtual machine, and Docker image, into the Secure Safe Haven
  • Default text editors
• Using the Secure Safe Haven
  • Access project data
  • Submit a job to the Intel cluster
  • Data security within the Intel cluster
  • Troubleshooting: no internet connections

Success Stories

• Success Stories

Related services

As an alternative to using the Alan Turing Institute Research Computing Service, you may also want to consider Cirrus, an EPSRC Tier-2 National HPC Facility available for users in both academia and industry for computational, simulation, modelling, and data science challenges.

hpc-uk provides information about organisations across the UK, including EPCC, that offer access to HPC infrastructures and related services such as training.

About this documentation

This documentation is based on the Cirrus Documentation which itself draws on the Sheffield Iceberg Documentation and the documentation for the ARCHER National Supercomputing Service.