ARCHIVED: Get started on Karst

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Note:

Karst was retired from service on December 18, 2020. Although you can no longer log into Karst, you can access files in your Karst home directory from any of the other IU research supercomputers until December 31, 2021. For information about Quartz, Karst's replacement system, see About Quartz at IU.

On this page:

System overview
Accounts, access, and user policies
Set up your user environment
Run jobs
X forwarding and interactive jobs
Get help

System overview

Karst is Indiana University's high-throughput computing cluster. Designed to deliver large amounts of processing capacity over long periods of time, Karst's system architecture provides IU researchers the advanced performance needed to accommodate high-end, data-intensive applications critical to scientific discovery and innovation.

Accounts, access, and user policies

Set up your user environment

Run jobs

X forwarding and interactive jobs

Use X forwarding to run interactive jobs with GUIs

Get help

Support for IU research supercomputers, software, and services is provided by various teams within the Research Technologies division of UITS.

If you have a technical issue or system-specific question, contact the High Performance Systems (HPS) team.
If you have a programming question about compilers, scientific/numerical libraries, or debuggers, contact the UITS Research Applications and Deep Learning team.

For general questions about research computing at IU, contact UITS Research Technologies.

For more options, see Research computing support at IU.