NOTS Computing for Matching Entrepreneurs to VCs

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NOTS Computing for Matching Entrepreneurs to VCs
Project Information
Project Title	NOTS Computing for Matching Entrepreneurs to VCs
Owner	Wei Wu
Start Date	2018-07-09
Deadline
Keywords	NOTS, Matlab
Primary Billing
Notes
Has project status	Active
Is dependent on	Estimating Unobserved Complementarities between Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists Matlab Code, Parallelize msmf corr coeff.m
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In progress. Building documentation from: https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/display/CD/Getting+Started+on+NOTS

Synopsis

Summer 2018. We try to use NOTS (Night Owls Time-Sharing Service), a computing cluster of Rice's CRC (Center for Research Computing) to run the Matlab code for Matching Entrepreneurs to VCs. This is a documentation on how to log onto and use NOTS. Currently only Wei and Ed have access to NOTS.

Getting Started

SSH to NOTS with your net id. For example, from a Linux/UNIX machine:

ssh -Y (username)@nots.rice.edu

To check what software is available, type

module spider

To see what modules are loaded,

module list

Currently, Matlab 2015a is installed on NOTS. To load a software such as Matlab 2015a,

module load MATLAB/2015a

To load this module by default at login,

module save

To unload all the modules,

module purge

Files Placement

Currently all the readjusted code for matching entrepreneurs to VCs are stored under /projects/fox/work

To transfer files

We have access to some of the directory on NOTS. In most cases, we will either work within our $HOME directory (4 GB storage quota):

/home/*username*

or within $PROJECT under Jeremy Fox (100 GB storage quota):

/projects/fox

To transfer some files from your local Linux/UNIX machine to NOTS, use the following Secure Copy command on your local terminal:

scp some_file.dat *.incl *.txt (your_login_name)@nots.rice.edu:

This will put the files into your $HOME directory on NOTS