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CVL Slurm cluster
The Computer Vision Lab (CVL) owns a Slurm cluster with restricted access. The following information is an addendum to the main Slurm article in this wiki specific for usage of the CVL cluster. Furthermore, CVL maintains it's own wiki article to help you getting started and listing frequently asked questions. Consult these two articles if the information you're looking for isn't available here:
Setting environment
The environment variable SLURM_CONF needs to be adjusted to point to the configuration of the CVL cluster:
export SLURM_CONF=/home/sladmcvl/slurm/slurm.conf
Hardware
The following tables summarizes node specific information:
Server |
CPU |
Frequency |
Physical cores |
Logical processors |
Memory |
/scratch Size |
GPUs |
GPU architecture |
Operating system |
biwirender12 |
Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 |
2.60 GHz |
16 |
32 |
251 GB |
701 GB |
4 RTX 2080 Ti (10 GB) |
Turing |
Debian 11 |
biwirender13 |
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 |
2.50 GHz |
24 |
24 |
503 GB |
701 GB |
5 TITAN Xp (12 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
biwirender14 |
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 |
2.40 GHz |
28 |
28 |
503 GB |
701 GB |
7 TITAN Xp (12 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
biwirender15 |
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 |
2.40 GHz |
28 |
28 |
503 GB |
1.1 TB |
7 TITAN Xp (12 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
biwirender17 |
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 |
2.10 GHz |
16 |
32 |
503 GB |
403 GB |
6 GTX 1080 Ti (11 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
biwirender20 |
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 |
2.10 GHz |
16 |
32 |
376 GB |
403 GB |
6 GTX 1080 Ti (11 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu01 |
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 |
2.50 GHz |
24 |
24 |
251 GB |
1.1 TB |
6 TITAN X (12 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu02 |
Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 |
2.60 GHz |
16 |
16 |
251 GB |
692 GB |
5 TITAN Xp (12 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu03 |
Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 |
2.20 GHz |
20 |
40 |
251 GB |
1.1 TB |
5 TITAN Xp (12 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu04 |
Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 |
2.20 GHz |
20 |
20 |
251 GB |
1.1 TB |
5 TITAN Xp (12 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu05 |
Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 |
2.20 GHz |
20 |
20 |
251 GB |
1.1 TB |
4 TITAN Xp (12 GB) |
Pascal |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu06 |
AMD EPYC 7742 |
3.41 GHz |
128 |
128 |
503 GB |
1.8 TB |
4 A100 (40 GB) |
Ampere |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu07 |
AMD EPYC 7763 |
3.53 GHz |
128 |
128 |
755 GB |
6.9 TB |
8 A6000 (48 GB) |
Ampere |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu08 |
AMD EPYC 7763 |
3.53 GHz |
128 |
128 |
755 GB |
6.9 TB |
8 A6000 (48 GB) |
Ampere |
Debian 11 |
bmicgpu09 |
AMD EPYC 7763 |
3.53 GHz |
128 |
128 |
755 GB |
6.9 TB |
8 A6000 (48 GB) |
Ampere |
Debian 11 |
octopus01 |
AMD EPYC 7H12 |
3.41 GHz |
128 |
128 |
755 GB |
1.8 TB |
8 A6000 (48 GB) |
Ampere |
Debian 11 |
octopus02 |
AMD EPYC 7H12 |
3.41 GHz |
128 |
128 |
755 GB |
1.8 TB |
8 A6000 (48 GB) |
Ampere |
Debian 11 |
octopus03 |
AMD EPYC 7742 |
3.41 GHz |
128 |
128 |
755 GB |
1.8 TB |
8 A6000 (48 GB) |
Ampere |
Debian 11 |
octopus04 |
AMD EPYC 7742 |
3.41 GHz |
128 |
128 |
755 GB |
1.8 TB |
8 A6000 (48 GB) |
Ampere |
Debian 11 |
Detailed information about all nodes can be seen by issuing the command
scontrol show nodes
An overview of utilization of individual node's resources can be shown with:
sinfo --Format nodehost:14,statecompact:7,cpusstate:16,cpusload:11,memory:8,allocmem:10,gres:55,gresused:62,reason:10
(Adapt the field length for gres and gresused to your needs)
Automatic/default resource assignment
- Jobs not explicitely requesting GPU resources receive the default of 1 GPU
- Jobs receive a default of 2 CPUs and 40GB per assigned or requested GPU
Limits
- Run time for interactive jobs is limited to 2 hours
- Run time for batch jobs is limited to 48 hours
Need for longer run time
If you need to run longer jobs, coordinate with your administrative contact a request to be added to the account long at ISG D-ITET support
After you've been added to long, specify this account as in the following example to run longer jobs:
sbatch --account=long job_script.sh
Display GPU availability
Information about the GPU nodes and current availability of the installed GPUs is updated every 5 minutes to the file /home/sladmcvl/smon.txt. Here are some convenient aliases to display the file with highlighting of either free GPUs or those running the current user's jobs:
alias smon_free="grep --color=always --extended-regexp 'free|$' /home/sladmcvl/smon.txt"
alias smon_mine="grep --color=always --extended-regexp '${USER}|$' /home/sladmcvl/smon.txt"
For monitoring its content the following aliases can be used:
alias watch_smon_free="watch --interval 300 --no-title --differences --color \"grep --color=always --extended-regexp 'free|$' /home/sladmcvl/smon.txt\""
alias watch_smon_mine="watch --interval 300 --no-title --differences --color \"grep --color=always --extended-regexp '${USER}|$' /home/sladmcvl/smon.txt\""
BMIC specific information
The BMIC group of CVL owns dedicated CPU and GPU resources with restricted access. These resources are grouped in partitions cpu.bmic, gpu.bmic and gpu.bmic.long.
Access to these partitions is available for members of the Slurm account bmic only. You can check your Slurm account membership with the following command:
sacctmgr show users WithAssoc Format=User%-15,DefaultAccount%-15,Account%-15 ${USER}
Notable differences
With access to the BMIC resources, the following differences to the common defaults and limits apply:
Jobs not explicitely requesting GPU resources will not receive a default of 1 GPU but are sent to the partition dedicated for CPU-only jobs cpu.bmic
Need for longer run time: As above, but apply to be added to bmic.long
- Run time for interactive jobs is limited to 8 hours