LBB Slurm information

The Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (LBB) owns nodes in the Slurm cluster with restricted access. The following information is an addendum to the main Slurm article in this wiki specific for accessing these LBB nodes.
If the information you're looking for isn't available here, please consult the main Slurm article.

Hardware

The following GPU nodes are reserved for exclusive use by TIK:

Shared /scratch_net

Access to local /scratch of each node is available as an automount (on demand) under /scratch_net/tikgpuNM (Replace NM with an existing hostname number) on each node.

• On demand means: The path to a node's /scratch will be available at first access, like after issuing ls /scratch_net/tikgpuNM and disappear again when unused.

• scratch_clean is active on local /scratch of all nodes, meaning older data will be deleted if space is needed. For details see the man page man scratch_clean.

Accounts and partitions

The nodes are grouped in partitions to prioritize access for different accounts:

* Please contact the technical contact of LBB to have you granted account membership

Overflow into gpu.normal

Jobs from LBB users will overflow to partition gpu.normal in case all LBB nodes are busy, as LBB is a löaboratory contributing to the Slurm cluster besides owning nodes.

Rules of conduct

There are no limits imposed on resources requested by jobs. Please be polite and share available resources sensibly. If you're in need of above-average resources, please coordinate with other LBB Slurm users.

Improving the configuration

If you think the current configuration of LBB nodes, partitions etc. could be improved:

• Discuss your ideas with your colleagues
• Bring your ideas to your technical contact

The technical contact will streamline your ideas into a concrete change request which we (ISG D-ITET) will implement for you.