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Information about the HPC-Cluster
In order to get access to the department of physics HPC resources you need to send an email to hpc@physik.fu-berlin.de. Please give some information on the kind of jobs you are planing to run and software you plan to use, if possible.
2015-06-16: Currently there are two HPC clusters in production at the physics department. One is located in the HLRN datacenter, the other is located at ZEDAT. See the table below for further information on available resources. Both cluster only share a common /home. Everything else like the queuing system ot /scratch are distinct. Both are running Debian/Wheezy and utilize the Slurm scheduling system.
Slurm documentation
- Important notes on cluster usage
- Start with the Introduction to the Slurm HPC cluster.
- Using interactive sessions with the queuing system.
- How to make use of the GPU-nodes.
General documentation
- Robert Hübener from AG-Eisert has written a HOWTO for using Mathematica on a HPC-Cluster.
- A current python version has been built for cluster usage. The Python on the HPC-Cluster tutorial describes how to set it up.
Overview of available resources
The following table lists all HPC resources available at the physics department. At the end of the table we also list the resources for the ZEDAT soroban cluster. The tron cluster at Takustrasse 9 is currently restructured and will most likely start running Debian/Jessie.
| Hosts | Manager | Nodes | Form | Hardware | CPU | Speed | Core/Node | RAM/Core | RAM/Node | #RAM | #Cores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tron cluster - FB Physik - Location: Takustrasse 9 | |||||||||||
| n010-n041 | offline | 32 | 2U Twin2 | Dell C6100 | 2x Xeon X5650 | 2.66GHz | 12 | 8G | 96G | 3072G | 384 |
| n110-n111 | offline | 2 | 2U | Dell C6145 | 4x Opteron 6128HE | 2.0GHz | 32 | 4G | 128G | 256G | 64 |
| n112-n127 | offline | 16 | Blade | Dell M600 | 2x Xeon E5450 | 3.00GHz | 8 | 2G | 16G | 256G | 128 |
| n128-n143 | offline | 16 | Blade | Dell M600 | 2x Xeon E5450 | 3.00GHz | 8 | 2G | 16G | 256G | 128 |
| n144-n175 | offline | 32 | Blade | Dell M610 | 2x Xeon X5570 | 2.93GHz | 8 | 6G | 48G | 1536G | 256 |
| n176-n183 | offline | 8 | 4U | HP DL580 | 4x Xeon X7560 | 2.26Ghz | 32 | 8G | 256G | 2048G | 256 |
| #Taku9 | G | ||||||||||
| sheldon cluster - FB Physik - Location: HLRN | |||||||||||
| x001-x192 | SLURM1) | 192 | Blade | SGI Altix ICE 8200 | 2x Xeon X5570 | 2.93GHz | 8 | 6G | 48G | 9216G | 1536 |
| uv1000 | none | 1 | 42U | SGI UV 1000 | 64x Xeon X7560 | 2.26Ghz | 512 | 4G | 2T | 2048G | 512 |
| #HLRN | 193 | 11264G | 2048 | ||||||||
| yoshi cluster - FB Physik - Location: ZEDAT | |||||||||||
| y001-y128 | SLURM1) | 128 | Blade | HP BL460c G6 | 2x Xeon X5570 | 2.93GHz | 8 | 6G | 48G | 6144G | 1024 |
| ygpu01-ygpu31 | SLURM2) | 31 | 2U GPU Nodes (2x Nvidia Tesla M2070) | IBM iDataPlex dx360 M3 | 2x Xeon X5570 | 2.93GHz | 8 | 3G | 24G | 744G | 248 |
| #Ph-ZEDAT | 159 | 6888G | 1272 | ||||||||
| soroban cluster - ZEDAT-HPC - Location: ZEDAT | |||||||||||
| node001-002 | SLURM | 2 | 1U Twin | Asus Z8NH-D12 | 2x Xeon X5650 | 2.66GHz | 12 | 8G | 48G | 96G | 24 |
| node003-030 | SLURM | 28 | 1U Twin | Asus Z8NH-D12 | 2x Xeon X5650 | 2.66GHz | 12 | 4G | 24G | 672G | 336 |
| node031-100 | SLURM | 70 | 1U Twin | Asus Z8NH-D12 | 2x Xeon X5650 | 2.66GHz | 12 | 8G | 48G | 3360G | 840 |
| node101-112 | SLURM | 12 | 1U Twin | Asus Z8NH-D12 | 2x Xeon X5650 | 2.66GHz | 12 | 16G | 96G | 1152G | 144 |
| #ZEDAT | 112 | 5280G | 1344 | ||||||||
| ausgemusterte Systeme | |||||||||||
| Abacus4 | 8 | IBM p575 | 16x POWER 5+ | 1.9Ghz | 32 | 4G | 128G | 1024G | 256 | ||
Operating System: Debian Linux Squeeze (x64)
1) in production but still experimental
2) work in progress
(15.03.2014)
