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On all of our internal servers you have the same home called: /HOME/username
For your home you have a quota of 200 MByte.
Everything under the home directories is backed up. You can find more information about our backup policies and how to retrieve the backups on the following wiki: :
        Home backup
Since the homes are backed up it is highly recommended to keep everything that is small and important in your home, like all your scripts and programs! You can work with symbolic links if you like to have your scripts and programs accessible from other directories or on other file systems.

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If ever you need to transfer data from or /to one of the internal servers to/from the outside, follow the instructions on the following page:   Transfert de données de/vers l'extérieur

The software

On our UQAM servers, as well as on clusters of The Alliance, 'modules' (http://modules.sourceforge.net) are used to give access to different software packages. Learn more about modules on the following page:   Modules

Python

Even though there are default Python version installed on some of the servers it is strongly recommended to load a version via the modules (see above):   Accéder à Python

Jupyter

If you want to use Jupyter follow the instruction on the following site:   Accéder à Jupyter

RPN Python

To be able to read/write RPN files in Python, follow the instruction on the following site:   RPN Python

CRCM/GEM

At the ESCER Centre we a using a slightly modified version of ECCC's (Environnement Canada et Climat Canada) weather forecast model GEM (Global Environmental Multiscale), officially called "Developmental version of CRCM/GEM
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For more information click o the following link:   CRCM/GEM

GEM model output

Instead of being in NetCDF or GRIB format, the GEM model outin- and input output is the RPN standard format. This format comes with it's own set of tools to look at / and to modify the data.

On the internal servers of the ESCER Centre you can find some practice data under:

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