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aiken.ce.pdn.ac.lk Server

This is a HPC (High Performance Computing) server of the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.

The administrator changes will be documented here .

You can use this server using the LDAP login for ce.pdn.ac.lk undergraduates (which is used for CO top floor lab, aiken and tesla) without sudo access.

Send an email to headce[at]eng.pdn.ac.lk with your registration number requesting an account in this server. If you are allowed to have one, head of the Department will forward the request to the server admin and you will receive a login.

You can directly SSH to this server from anywhere. Read how to SSH


  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (20MB Cache, 32 Threads)
  • 256 GB of RAM

Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

Please request through any CO staff member . Please note that the server admin has no authority to install something unless it is requested by a staff member.


  • Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
  • conda 4.8.5

Write an email to CE Network Admin if this is not urgent. If not, call CE Network Admin .


  1. Send a request to the server admin via the server admin contact page to run this command: 
    sudo singularity config fakeroot --add eXXYYY
  2. Download the sample def file: 
    eyyxxx@aiken:~$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cepdnaclk/singularity-deployment/main/base.def
  3. Build the container: 
    eyyxxx@aiken:~$ singularity build --fakeroot base.sif base.def
  4. Run commands using the container: 
    eyyxxx@aiken:~$ singularity exec base.sif <your-command>

If you need to learn more, go to: https://github.com/cepdnaclk/singularity-deployment


Ask the CE Network Admin