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Logging in to PowerPortal
PowerPortal uses your TAU university credentials — the same username and password you use for TAU...
Getting Started with PowerPortal
PowerPortal is a web interface for the TAU HPC cluster. It lets you submit batch jobs to Slurm, m...
PowerIDE User Guide
PowerIDE provides interactive access to the HPC cluster through a web browser. Run Jupyter notebo...
Submitting Your First Job
Once you have your account and partition from check_my_partitions, you are ready to submit your ...
Useful Tools
External tools and resources to help with TAU HPC usage. HPC Helper Toolkit An AI-powered toolkit...
Palo Alto VPN
TAU uses Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN with two-factor authentication (Google Authenticator). Requi...
Troubleshooting
Common errors and solutions for job submission and cluster usage. Job Submission Errors No partit...
Common Slurm Commands
Quick reference for the most common Slurm commands on the TAU HPC cluster. Submitting Jobs Comman...
RELION
RELION is a cryo-EM structure determination package. On the TAU HPC cluster it runs on the dedica...
Jupyter on Slurm
Run JupyterLab interactively on a compute node via SSH port forwarding. For a simpler browser-bas...
Conda & Mamba Environments
Conda and Mamba let you create isolated software environments with specific package versions. Use...
AlphaFold3
AlphaFold3 runs via Singularity/Apptainer container on GPU nodes with the af3 GRES constraint. L...
AlphaFold
AlphaFold is an AI program developed by DeepMind that predicts protein structures from amino acid...
Finding Your Account and Partition
Before submitting jobs, you need to know which account and partition you have access to. These ar...
Storage and Scratch
Home Directory Every user has a personal home directory at /home/your_username. This is your def...
Environment Modules
Environment Modules let you dynamically load and unload software packages without conflicts betwe...
Accessing the System
Requirements You must be a member of the power group Valid Tel Aviv University username and passw...
Managing & Monitoring Jobs
Once your job is submitted, use these commands to track and manage it. Checking Job Status # Your...
Interactive Jobs
Interactive jobs give you a shell directly on a compute node — useful for testing, debugging, or ...
Memory & Resource Estimation
Specifying the right amount of memory is important. Too little and your job fails with OOM. Too m...