Quick Start Guide

Important

In the summer/fall of 2025, Delta is transitioning from a RedHat 8 based OS stack to a RedHat 9 based OS stack. During the transition, some nodes will have the “old” RH8 stack, while some nodes will have the new RH9 stack.

There are two different versions of the documentation while this is going on. You are currently looking at pages for the new RH9 stack. For documentation on the old RH8 stack, go to the Red Hat 8 page.

This information is for users who are adept at using an HPC system and are only interested in the basic Delta workflow.

  1. Management Tools - Allocation Account management (ACCESS and non-ACCESS)

  2. NCSA Identity Tools - NCSA Login Account management including password reset and Duo setup

  3. Direct Access Login Nodes - Accessing the system via direct access login nodes

  4. Partitions (Queues) - Partitions and job policies

  5. Job Management - Batch job management

  6. Sample Scripts - Sample scripts

  7. Transferring Data - Transferring data to and from the Delta system