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For the E3SM tutorial, all users associated will be added to a temporary project named ntrain6 (not username, this is your unix group and where compute hours charged, etc). To check if you are in ntrain6, try the command groups.
To ask for a compute node: salloc -A ntrain6 --reservation=xx -C cpu -N 1 -c 32 -t 30:00 -q shared
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