EDA Servers User Guide

Welcome to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the EDA Servers Galaxy.

This is a guide for users of the shared servers belonging to the EDA Group at Politecnico di Torino. All users should carefully read this guide before starting to use the servers. Two important disclaimers:

• This guide is not a computer engineering course, and therefore it assumes that you have a basic knowledge on several topics (Linux command line tools, network protocols, computer hardware, etc). It you are not familiar with something, Google and ChatGPT are your friends.
• The servers are a shared computation environment based on constructive cooperation. This means that, if you do not pay attention at what you do, and you don't follow this guide carefully, you'll be able to cause a lot of problems to yourself, other group members, and sysadmins. While sysadmins cannot avoid all problems, they will most likely identify who created them.

You are now warned and free to proceed at your own risk.

Table of Contents

1. Servers Information
2. Accounts
3. Connecting to the servers
4. Storage Management and Quotas
5. Monitoring Resources
6. Software, Libraries and Data
   • Using Custom Software
   • Software Modules on Philae
   • Remote Code Deployment
   • Python Virtual Environments
   • EDA Technology Libraries
7. Miscellaneous Settings
   • Choosing which GPU to Use
   • Limiting GPU Memory
   • Limiting CPU Threads

Contacts

The main EDA server administrators is: Daniele Jahier Pagliari

You can find his email address in the EDA group website.