What computing resources are available?

For some projects, a powerful personal computer might be sufficient.

For some projects, you might need a high-performance computing environment. We have a few options.

Computational servers provided by the lab

We have decently powerful computational servers. If you request, you will be provided key-based SSH access. The machines run Linux.

You can connect to these servers via SSH. If you are on Windows, you can use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or an SSH client like PuTTY:

• For Unix-based and Unix-like systems (including macOS, Linux, and WSL): https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ssh-to-connect-to-a-remote-server

• For PuTTY: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/putty/windows

Here are some guides on how to generate an SSH key pair:

• For Unix-based and Unix-like systems (including macOS, Linux, and WSL): https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/keygen

• For PuTTY: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/putty/windows/puttygen

You can transfer data from your (local) machine to the (remote) server (or vice versa) using scp (pscp if you are using PuTTY) or rsync:

• scp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/scp-linux-command-example-how-to-ssh-file-transfer-from-remote-to-local/

• rsync: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories

Computational servers provided by CCS

Computational servers provided by DOST ASTI-COARE

DOST ASTI-COARE generously provides free access to their HPCs:

• https://asti.dost.gov.ph/coare/wiki/Main/using-coare/

Cloud services

We have previously used Google’s free credits for researchers.

• https://edu.google.com/programs/credits/research/?modal_active=none

• https://sites.research.google/trc/about/