Lighthouse User Guide

The Lighthouse cluster supports researchers with grants that require the purchase of computing hardware. Lighthouse allows researchers to place their own hardware within the ARC HPC Slurm environment. It utilizes Slurm as its workload manager, enabling users to work interactively or submit batch jobs.

To access this cluster, you must have a login and a Slurm account to submit jobs. 

There are three ways to interact with this cluster:

  • Open OnDemand  a web-based portal designed primarily for interactive work, with applications for Jupyter Notebooks, R Studio, Matlab, and more
  • Command Line — Linux-based login nodes, where you can manage your files, submit and monitor your jobs
  • Globus transfer — a high speed  file transfer and management service