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Overview

Partitions

intel partition

This is the default partition selected if the -p/--partition argument is not provided to srun or sbatch, and is currently where the majority of our CPU-only nodes reside. There are no nodes in the intel partition with GPUs.

The CPUs in this partition vary. Some are E5 2660's, some are E5 2660v2's, and some are E5 2670v2's. All of the E5 2660v2 and E5 2670v2 nodes are connected with a low-latency high-throughput FDR InfiniBand fabric. The openmpi modules on the cluster are compiled to communicate over the InfiniBand fabric when available through UCX.

Some of these CPUs are older, but workable throughput can still be achieved with them through the use of Job Arrays or openmpi to achieve some degree of parallelism.

Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
intel 25 ACF R1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz 2 20 125GiB none/0 1 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)
intel 20 ACF R29 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz 2 20 125GiB none/0 1 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)
intel 16 ACF R4 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz 2 20 125GiB none/0 QDR Infiniband (40Gb/s), 10 Gigabit Ethernet
intel 11 ACF R3 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz 2 16 125GiB none/0 1 Gigabit Ethernet
intel 6 Upstairs R1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz 2 16 62GiB none/0 10 Gigabit Ethernet
intel 6 Upstairs R1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz 2 16 31GiB none/0 10 Gigabit Ethernet
intel 4 ACF R3 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz 2 16 251GiB none/0 1 Gigabit Ethernet
intel 4 ACF R29 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz 2 20 251GiB none/0 1 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)
intel 3 ACF R1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz 2 20 251GiB none/0 1 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)
intel 2 Upstairs R1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz 2 16 251GiB none/0 10 Gigabit Ethernet
intel 1 Upstairs R1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz 2 20 125GiB none/0 10 Gigabit Ethernet
intel 3 ACF R25 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8268 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2 48 251GiB none/0 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)

gpu-a100 partition

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Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
gpu 1 ACF R26 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8260 CPU @ 2.40GHz 4 96 1510GiB NVIDIA A100-PCIE-40GB/2 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)

gpu-p100 partition

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Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
gpu 2 ACF R28 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz 2 24 125GiB Tesla P100-PCIE-16GB/4 1 Gigabit Ethernet

gpu-v100 partition

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Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
gpu 1 ACF R28 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz 2 16 125GiB Tesla V100S-PCIE-32GB/2 10 Gigabit Ethernet

gpu-l40s partition

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Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
gpu 1 ACF R25 INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6526Y 2 32 251GiB NVIDIA L40S/2 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)

gpu-pro6000 partition

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Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
gpu 1 ACF R28 AMD EPYC 9135 2 16 503GiB NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000/2 10 Gigabit Ethernet

gpu-small partition

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Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
gpu 2 ACF R28 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6850K CPU @ 3.60GHz 1 6 62GiB NVIDIA TITAN Xp/2 1 Gigabit Ethernet
gpu 1 ACF R28 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6850K CPU @ 3.60GHz 1 6 94GiB NVIDIA TITAN Xp/1, NVIDIA TITAN RTX/1 1 Gigabit Ethernet

bigm partition

This partition contains nodes with 512GB of memory or more.

Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
bigm 4 ACF R1 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz 2 20 503GiB none/0 1 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)

neoverse partition

This partition contains two Ampere Altra servers with 1 80-core Neoverse N1 CPU each.

Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
ampere 2 ACF R26 Neoverse-N1 1 80 125GiB none/0 1 Gigabit Ethernet

mmicc partition

This partition contains two nodes with two NVIDIA L40S GPUs, and is exclusive to researchers associated with MMICC.

Partition Nodes Location CPU Sockets Cores RAM GPUs/Count Connectivity
mmicc 2 ACF R25 INTEL(R) XEON(R) GOLD 6526Y 2 32 251GiB NVIDIA L40S/2 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FDR InfiniBand (56Gb/s)

cpu-debug partition

Debug partitions have short walltime limits but have the highest priority tier relative to other partitions to facilitate rapid debugging/testing. This partition includes all the CPU nodes in the cluster and allows users to submit short, high priority jobs to them. Each user can only have one running or pending job in this partition at a time.

You can check current walltime limits and other information with scontrol show partitions or scontrol show partition <specified partition>.

gpu-debug partition

Visit Slurm GPU Jobs for more information on how to use GPU nodes. If using OnDemand, visit OnDemand Desktop first.

Debug partitions have short walltime limits but have the highest priority tier relative to other partitions to facilitate rapid debugging/testing. This partition includes all the GPU nodes in the cluster and allows users to submit short, high priority jobs to them. Each user can only have one running or pending job in this partition at a time.

You can check current walltime limits and other information with scontrol show partitions or scontrol show partition <specified partition>.

scavenger partition

This partition includes every node in the cluster, meaning it overlaps with all other partitions, including hidden ones.

Jobs submitted to this partition have almost no restrictions, but are preemptible by jobs submitted to other partitions.

"Preemptible" means that jobs submitted to this partition can be stopped and requeued at any point to make way for higher priority jobs. Jobs submitted to this partition should checkpoint periodically (and be able to resume from checkpoint) to minimize lost progress.

You can use this partition to "scavenge" unused cycles/time on hardware you otherwise would not have access to. Since walltime limits are less strict, you can also use this partition for long-running jobs so long as your jobs can handle being stopped/requeued without losing all their progress.

This is a good place to submit long-running jobs that are capable of checkpoints/resumes.

Using the nodes

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