Welcome to the CECI documentation!

All technical specificities of the CECI clusters are described over there. Here, you will find all technical information needed to run jobs on them.

Warning

We are pleased to announce the deployment of the new distributed storage system on the CÉCI clusters. The new system has been available to all users since April 14th, 2025.

Read on how to use the Common Storage

• First steps

  • Creating an account
  • Connecting to the clusters
  • Introduction to Linux
  • Copying files
  • Editing files
  • Submitting jobs with Slurm
  • Glossary
  • Acknowledging the CÉCI

• Folder and Files

  • Disk space
  • Transferring files to and from the clusters
  • Using the common filesystem
  • Sharing files among CÉCI users
  • Copy files and folders to the /CECI/proj partition
  • Making your files Secure
  • Making your files safe
  • Long term data storage
  • Encrypting files

• Software and Libraries

  • Using pre-installed software
  • Compiling and installing software from source
  • Installing software by yourself
  • Singularity Container
  • Visualization server
  • Jupyter
  • Login shell
  • Software-specific documentation

• Job Submission

  • Submitting jobs with Slurm
  • Slurm F.A.Q
  • Slurm priorities
  • An interactive job submission tool: ssubmit
  • Getting Job Efficiency
  • Slurm limits
  • Workflow management
  • Slurm interactive jobs
  • Using Visual Studio Code inside a job