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Documentation

  • Requesting An Account
  • Get Started
    • Quick Start
    • Common Terms
    • HPC Resources
    • Theory of HPC
      • Overview of threads, cores, and sockets in Slurm for HPC workflows
    • Git Guide
  • Connecting to Unity
    • SSH
    • Unity OnDemand
    • Connecting to Desktop VS Code
  • Get Help
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • How to Ask for Help
    • Troubleshooting
  • Cluster Specifications
    • Node List
    • Partition List
      • Gypsum
    • Storage
    • Node Features (Constraints)
      • NVLink and NVSwitch
    • GPU Summary List
  • Managing Files
    • Command Line Interface (CLI)
    • Disk Quotas
    • FileZilla
    • Globus
    • Scratch: HPC Workspace
    • Unity OnDemand File Browser
  • Submitting Jobs
    • Batch Jobs
      • Array Batch Jobs
      • Large Job Counts
      • Monitor a batch job
    • Helper Scripts
    • Interactive CLI Jobs
    • Unity OnDemand
    • Message Passing Interface (MPI)
    • Slurm cheat sheet
  • Software Management
    • Building Software from Scratch
    • Conda
    • Modules
      • Module Usage
    • Renv
    • Unity OnDemand
      • JupyterLab OnDemand
    • Venv
  • Tools & Software
    • ColabFold
    • R
      • R Parallelization
    • Unity GPUs
  • Datasets
    • AI and ML
      • AlpacaFarm
      • audioset
      • biomed_clip
      • blip_2
      • blip_2
      • coco
      • Code Llama
      • DeepAccident
      • DeepSeek
      • DINO v2
      • epic-kitchens
      • florence
      • gemma
      • gpt
      • gte-Qwen2
      • ibm-granite
      • Idefics2
      • Imagenet 1K
      • inaturalist
      • infly
      • instruct-blip
      • intfloat
      • LAION
      • linq
      • llama
      • Llama2
      • llama3
      • llama4
      • Llava_OneVision
      • Lumina
      • mixtral
      • msmarco
      • natural-questions
      • objaverse
      • openai-whisper
      • pythia
      • qwen
      • R1-1776
      • rag-sequence-nq
      • red-pajama-v2
      • s1-32B
      • satlas_pretrain
      • scalabilityai
      • SlimPajama
      • t5
      • Tulu
      • V2X
      • video-MAE
      • videoMAE-v2
      • vit
      • wildchat
    • Bioinformatics
      • AlphaFold3 Databases
      • BFD/MGnify
      • Big Fantastic Database
      • checkm
      • ColabFoldDB
      • dfam
      • EggNOG
      • EggNOG
      • gmap
      • GMAP-GSNAP database (human genome)
      • GTDB
      • igenomes
      • Kraken2
      • MGnify
      • NCBI BLAST databases
      • NCBI RefSeq database
      • NCBI RefSeq database
      • Parameters of Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) models
      • params
      • PDB70
      • PDB70 for ColabFold
      • PINDER
      • PLINDER
      • Protein Data Bank
      • Protein Data Bank database in mmCIF format
      • Protein Data Bank database in SEQRES records
      • Tara Oceans 18S amplicon
      • Tara Oceans MATOU gene catalog
      • Tara Oceans MGT transcriptomes
      • Uniclust30
      • UniProtKB
      • UniRef100
      • UniRef30
      • UniRef90
      • Updated databases for ColabFold
    • Using HuggingFace Datasets

Documentation

Welcome to Unity! The Unity platform is a collaborative, multi-institutional high-performance computing platform located at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). Unity is under active development and supports primarily research activities. Partnering institutions currently include UMass Amherst, University of Rhode Island, UMass Dartmouth, UMass Lowell, UMass Boston, and Mount Holyoke College. If you need help, please contact us.

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Table of Contents
A birds-eye view of the documentation.
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Requesting An Account
How to sign up for a Unity account as a faculty member, student, or other researcher.
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Get Started
Get started with HPC and Unity
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Connecting to Unity
Command-line and graphical methods for connecting to Unity, including SSH access and the Open OnDemand web portal.
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Get Help
Have a question? It may be here!
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Cluster Specifications
Unity’s technical specs, including partitions, compute nodes, and storage.
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Managing Files
Managing data on and transferring data to and from Unity.
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Submitting Jobs
How to launch work on Unity’s compute nodes through Slurm, including interactive and non-interactive methods.
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Software Management
How to use software installed on Unity.
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Tools & Software
Tutorials for specific software available on Unity.
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Datasets
Technical information about the public datasets provided on Unity.
University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Rhode Island University of Rhode Island University of Massachusetts Dartmouth University of Massachusetts Dartmouth University of Massachusetts Lowell University of Massachusetts Lowell University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Boston Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Smith College Smith College
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