Preparation

Once your Soteria request form has been reviewed and approved, you will receive an email with the subject UA Soteria Access Request Approved. This email will contain the next steps to take which are detailed below:

Complete Required Training in Edge Learning

The CRRSP team will register you for the required trainings listed below (courses can also be found here: https://uaccess.arizona.edu):

1. HIPAA Essentials
2. Information Security: Insider Threat Awareness
3. Information Security Awareness Certification

Assignment to the Soteria VPN

Once you have completed your required training, the CRRSP team will notify you via email when you have been assigned access to the Soteria VPN. This VPN is an important part of our HIPAA compliance and differentiates Soteria usage from the standard HPC clusters. Soteria access cannot be established when not connect to the VPN. For VPN access, use: vpn.arizona.edu/soteria.

Additional Instructions

The computer you will use to access Soteria services must meet the following requirements:

1. The Operating System and applications must be updated with the latest patches
2. You must have a strong password to log into the computer (at least 8 characters and a mix of character types). 
3. This must not be a shared computer with other users
4. Up to date anti-virus software

Resources

The cluster has four standard compute nodes. Each has 94 cores and 512GB memory available. The two GPU nodes have the same resources but there are also four V100 GPU's in each.  You can use the regular parts of the documentation to learn how to use slurm with these nodes.
In case you are interested, these nodes are named by their physical location and you will see this if you are connected to an interactive session.  And with OnDemand (OOD) your connection will show the node hostname.

For the purpose of this early testing, the allocations of time and space will be similar to HPC.
The time allocation will be 100,000 hours.
Your account will come with space in /home and /groups where you can put your data.  Currently those directories are not subject to a quota limit.

System Access

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Card title-old GUI Access id gui-access label GUI Access title GUI Access GUI Applications/GUI Access to Soteria Note To access GUI applications, first connect to the Soteria VPN Similar to the other HPC clusters, we offer the service Open OnDemand to provide web browser access to Soteria. This can be used to navigate, view, and edit files as well as gain access to graphical applications. In your favorite browser, go to: https://ondemand-hipaa.hpc.arizona.edu The applications currently available are  RStudio, Matlab and Python 3.9 (Jupyter) Deck startHidden false id GUI Applications Card title-old RStudio id rstudio label RStudio title RStudio RStudio Starting from the OnDemand access, select RStudio server from the Interactive Apps dropdown.  Choose the resources you need and enter your PI's accounting group for the PI Group field Card title-old Matlab id matlab label Matlab title Matlab Starting from the OnDemand access, just select Interactive Desktop from the Interactive Apps dropdown. Choose the resources you need and enter your PI's accounting group for the PI Group field Once the session is assigned to a compute node, Launch Interactive Desktop Click on the icon representing the Mate Terminal Enter module load matlab, then matlab Wait a while for Matlab to load as it comes with many files.  Subsequent uses will load more quickly. Card title-old Jupyter Notebooks and Python id jupyter label Jupyter Notebooks and Python title Jupyter Notebooks and Python Jupyter Notebooks and Python Follow the Matlab instructions up to opening the Mate Terminal session. Then enter module load python/3.9, followed by jupyter-notebook Card title-old CLI Access id cli-access label Command Line Access title CLI Command Line Access Command Line Access to Soteria Soteria command line access is available with ssh.The hostname is shell.cougar.hpc.arizona.edu Code Block language bash theme Midnight title Soteria Access $ ssh your_netid@shell.cougar.hpc.arizona.edu Authorized uses only. All activity may be monitored and reported. Last login: Tue Nov 29 06:18:33 2022 from ans-02.hpc.arizona.edu Authorized uses only. All activity may be monitored and reported. netid@taub:~ $ Taub is a login node and will provide the same functionality and have the same policies as the other HPC clusters. Modules are available on Soteria's compute nodes but not on the login node. The command interactive is available to request a session on a compute node and jobs may be submitted using the standard sbatch. More details on SLURM commands can be found in: Running Jobs with Slurm

Transferring and Accessing Data

Globus

Globus can be used for moving data in and out of the Soteria environment.For more information on using Globus: https://publicuarizona.confluence.arizona.eduatlassian.net/wiki/display/UAHPC/Transferring+Data#TransferringData-GridFTP/Globus

Soteria's endpoint is: UA HPC HIPAA Filesystems

File Paths

Your files can be accessed on the filexfer nodes:

• /hipaa/groups/<pi_netid>
• /hipaa/home/uxx/<your_netid>

When connected to a Soteria login/compute node, you can find these under:

• /groups/<pi_netid>
• /home/uxx/<your_netid>

Storage Quotas

Currently, directories are not subject to a quota limit.

Getting Help

We use ServiceNow and can be reached with a support ticket.