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NOTE Please note that the Cirrus Lustre storage is not designed for small files. Attempting to store or retrieve files less than a few megabytes will result in extremely poor performance for all users. If you wish to store lots of small files to massdata, ple...

Users are allowed to change the default permissions file permissions in all folders they own. The default access rights to Cirrus filesystem is the folllowing: /home All files under /home are only accessible by the user. /data All files under /data/unixgrp/...

CNCA is open to researchers from Portuguese scientific and academic organizations in all areas of knowledge.

Researchers from foreign organizations can be eligible to use CNCA when they cooperate with Portuguese researchers in common projects, initiatives and infrastructures. The initial application form must be submitted by a researcher from a Portuguese academic o...

Please apply via the FCT Calls for Advanced Computing Projects (CPCA). FCT CPCA calls

Depends on the size and specificities of the request. If you have an FCT or European research project already approved and resources are available your request may be fast-tracked. Requests for smaller compute and storage capacities (CPCA A0/A1) are generally...

You can contact us via e-mail to the CNCA Computing Services helpdesk address: helpdesk at acnca.pt

Large requests should be backed by approved peer-reviewed research projects either national or European. Requests without a peer reviewed project will have lower priority, please fill the access request form with the maximum detail to facilitate the evaluati...

All non-profit R&D organizations recognized by the Portuguese government including: higher education institutions, state laboratories, collaborative laboratories (CoLABs), research infrastructures in the FCT roadmap, research laboratories and non profit or...

Private companies with publicly funded research projects can apply to use INCD. The usage is limited to the R&D activities of those projects. Private companies will have lower priority than academic or research organizations.

Infrastructures in the FCT roadmap of research infrastructures can apply to use the INCD infrastructure.

Small tutorial on how to install and run miniconda on the HPC clusters. 1. Login into your login machine 2. Download Miniconda into your local home $ wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda2-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh 3. Execute Miniconda $ ch...

The Cirrus software is managed using a tool called modules. This tool allows the user to load the correct environment (PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc) for each specific software package. The main commands are explained in the next sections. List of available Softw...

There are a few options for local users installation locations as showed on the next table, create appropriate paths bellow the base directory. Site Base Directory Comments CNCA-Lisbon (Cirrus-A) /home/GROUP/USERNAME CNCA-Lisbon (Cirrus-A) /data/GROU...

For specific user portal issues please use the following contact: portal (at) acnca.pt

These requests will be treated in the same manner as an ongoing project.

Yes, but only for research or academic activities performed by research units or academic organizations. Institutional requests are treated in the same manner as the other requests. Please indicate in the access request form that the request is institutional...

Yes, if you have independent projects with different fundings, you will have to register one request for each new project. No, if in the scope of the same project you have multiple fundings, in this case fill one single request and specify all fundings in th...