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 Hoffman2 Cluster documentation page
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**How to use this documentation**
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**About the Hoffman2 Cluster**
The Hoffman2 Cluster, which opened to users on January 28, 2008, is managed and operated by OARC's HPC Systems Research Technology Group under the direction of Lisa Snyder.


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| **IDRE Advanced Computing Classes**
| A number of advanced computing classes are scheduled every academic term. For more information or to sign up, please see: `IDRE's list of upcoming event <https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar>`_ or visit: `Workshops @ UCLA <http://workshops.idre.ucla.edu/>`_. For more information also see: `Education-and-training  <Education-And-Support/Education-and-training.html>`_.


**See how the Hoffman2 Cluster is contributing to the research mission of UCLA**

* :ref:`Research highlights`
* :ref:`Publications acknowledging the Hoffman2 Cluster <Publications>`
* :ref:`Acknowledging the Hoffman2 Cluster`

**Requesting help**

To contact the user support team, please open a request ticket to our `online help desk <https://support.idre.ucla.edu/helpdesk/Tickets/New?categoryId=389909&subject=Ticket%20generated%20from%20the%20Hoffman2%20documentation%20page.&body=This%20ticket%20was%20automatically%20generated%20from%20the%20Hoffman2%20Cluster%20documentation%20page.%20Please%20add%20your%20own%20information%20below>`__.

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   :caption: About:

   About/Mission-and-governance   
   About/System-overview
   About/Utilization-graph
   About/Purchasing-additional-resources 
   About/FAQ/FAQ
   About/acknowledge-H2


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   :caption: Accounts:

   Accounts/Accounts


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   :caption: Using the Hoffman2 cluster:
   
   Using-H2/Connecting/Connecting
   Using-H2/Command-line/Unix-command-line
   Using-H2/Computing/Computing
   Using-H2/Software/Software
   Using-H2/Data-transfer
   Using-H2/Storage/Storage


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   :caption: Education and User Support:

   Education-And-Support/Education-and-training
   Education-And-Support/Technical-support
   Education-And-Support/Research-facilitation
   Education-And-Support/Research-proposal-partnership

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   :caption: Policies:

   Policies/User-account-policy
   Policies/Backup-policy
   Policies/Job-scheduling 
   Policies/Role-of-the-login-nodes   
   Policies/Role-of-GPU-nodes 
   Policies/Security 
   Policies/Software-installation   

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   :caption: Research Showcase:

   Research-Showcase/Research-highlights/Research-highlights
   Research-Showcase/Projects-outreach-support/Projects-outreach-support
   Research-Showcase/Publications/Publications


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   :caption: News Archive:

   News-archive/News

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   :caption: Useful definitions:

   Glossary/Glossary