Dell Inspiron 7620 Plus Noisy Fan

You can reduce the high fan noise of the Dell Inspiron 7620 Plus through the power setting (set the thermal mode to Quiet) in the MyDell app.

Here are some info on logging into NSCC ASPIRE2A. See also:

Setting up DUO 2FA Authentication

Please email NSCC Helpdesk ([email protected]) for an email invite to set up and activate DUO on your mobile.

Click to access ASPIRE2A_DUO_ENROLLMENT.pdf

Installing Checkpoint Windows VPN Client

Refer to this guide for Windows and Mac:

Click to access ASPIRE2A_VPN_WINDOWS_v1.pdf

Click to access ASPIRE2A_VPN_MAC_v1.pdf

The Mac installation of CheckPoint VPN might also install the CheckPoint Firewall app. To remove it using the Terminal, use the command “rm -rf /Applications/Check Point Firewall.app”

Download the Windows and Mac VPN standalone client from this URL:

https://www.checkpoint.com/quantum/remote-access-vpn/#downloads

Connect to NSCC

ssh -Y <userid>@aspire2a.nscc.sg

Connect to NSCC using a ssh client. Note that the user ID may be case sensitive, e.g. P82828 is different from p82828.

Submit Jobs

Prepare a job submission script submit.pbs in the format below, and submit it using the command “qsub submit.pbs”

#PBS -l select=1:ncpus=1:mpiprocs=1:mem=4g:ngpus=4
#PBS -l walltime=01:00:00
#PBS -o log/
#PBS -j oe

### Put your project code here. If using personal account, type PBS -P personal-XXX where XXX is your account name
#PBS -P [replace with your 8 digit project ID]
#PBS -q normal

### send email when b: begin, a: aborted, e:end
#PBS -m bae

### Put your email address here
#PBS -M [replace with your email address]

# Enter where the job script is submitted.
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR || exit $?
# if no log folder, then make one
[ -d log ] || mkdir log

# Run your job
cd ~/prime
./prime