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NCShare Open OnDemand Shell Access

You can access a shell terminal on the NCShare Open OnDemand portal by following these steps,

  1. Login to ood.ncshare.org
  2. Click on "all available apps".
  3. Click on "Shell" or select it from the "Interactive Apps" menu at the top of the page.
  4. Select the desired walltime, number of CPUs, and amount of memory for your shell session.
  5. Once ready, click on the blue "Connect" button to launch your shell session.

OOD Shell

This will open a terminal window within your web browser, allowing you to run command-line operations directly on the NCShare cluster.

uherathmudiyanselage1 at compute-06 in ~
$ pwd
/hpc/home/uherathmudiyanselage1

Resource limits

The launch form enforces these limits on each field.

Field Minimum Maximum Default Step
Walltime (hours) 1 72 1 1
CPUs (threads) 2 40 2 2
GPUs 0 8 0 1
Memory (GB) 1 500 2 1

Partition limits still apply on top of these. For example, interactive-gpu caps jobs at 1 hour regardless of the walltime you enter, and requesting GPUs requires the gpu, interactive-gpu, or gpu-hp partition. See the GPU Guide for per-partition limits.