GPU

New GPU server

GPU, hardware, hpc
We have added another GPU server to our a100 partition. This server was purchased with funding from several groups as well as ICTS and additional resources will be dedicated to the shared a100free account. The server contains four a100-80GB cards…
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GPU cluster

GPU, hardware, hpc, Infiniband, SLURM
The new GPU nodes have been installed into our POC cluster and are currently running jobs. We installed the servers into our SLURM cluster to allow us to develop hands on experience in provisioning SLURM partitions with GPU resources, something …
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New toys

GPU, hardware, hpc
Today some shiny new kit was added to our data center. More kit to be installed over the coming weeks, watch this space. …
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High GPU utilization with no processes running

GPU, hardware
We noticed a while back that several of our GPU cards retained high utilization even though no processes were running on them. nvidia-smi Fri Mar 23 13:52:55 2018 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 375.26 Driver Version: 375.26 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name…
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New GPU cards

GPU, hardware, hpc
We have completed the upgrade to the GPU portion of the hex cluster: – Installed new GPU004 server with two nVidia K40 cards. – Two additional nVidia K40 cards added to GPU003. This brings the number of GPU cards in…
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GPU004

GPU, hardware, hpc
The new GPU server, srvslsgpu004, is up and running. Still to be configured is the Infiniband card and the BGFS volume. The server is being tested and will remain offline until next week. In the server are 2 x 10…
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Computational Chemistry publication

application, GPU, hpc
One of our top researchers, Professor Michelle Kuttel, recently made the cover of the Journal of Computational Chemistry. The computational work was performed on the UCT HPC cluster using our Supermicro GPU nodes. The cover image depicts a highly-branched …
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GPUs and GRES

GPU, hardware, hpc, SLURM

Our current cluster, hex, runs Torque with MAUI as the scheduler. While MAUI is GPU aware it does not allow GPUs to be scheduled. In other words you can list the nodes with GPUs but you cannot submit a job …

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Maintenance feedback

Cloud, GPU, hardware, hpc, MPI, operating system
What went right?
  • The HPC rack was neatened up. This involved moving and consolidating servers, making space for PDU's and removing redundant cables that were impeding airflow. New HPC servers were installed. This task took two entire days as other
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SuperMicro Tesla M1060 GPU System

GPU

A big-bytes thank-you to SuperMicro for having delivered a GPU system for testing. The system delivered is a SuperMicro – Tesla M1060. OS choice was Scientific Linux 5.4 x86_64. The distribution choice was chosen based on our existing HPC …

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