Summary
Resources per team
Teams will be given access to FinisTerrae-III HPC system. FinisTerrae-III is a combined CPU and GPU system
Teams will be granted a maximum of 100,000 CPU core hours
2 TB of persistent storage per team will be available for the duration of the data challenge
Resource Access
SSH + remote desktop (like VNC)
VPN is required
Teams will need to request a user account completing https://altausuarios.cesga.es/
Resource management
SLURM batch system provides access to nodes of the system
Software management
Users are able to install software in their user space, and have it available across the compute nodes
Containers are supported with Singularity and udocker.
Documentation
General documentation available in https://cesga-docs.gitlab.io/ft3-user-guide/index.html
Support
Enquiries may be sent to sistemas@cesga.es
Participants may join our Slack workspace by emailing sistemas@cesga.es and request to be added.
Resource location
Spain
Technical specifications
Overview
Detailed information about FinisTerrae-III is avaiable at https://cesga-docs.gitlab.io/ft3-user-guide/overview.html
Technical specifications
Over 20.000 cores Intel Xeon Ice Lake 8352Y
Infiniband Interconnect
128 NVIDIA A100 GPUs
Lustre file system for high performance IO
NFS shared file system for software and permanent storage
Tape library for long term retention storage
Per user resource
100,000 CPU hours available
2 TB persistent (for the duration of the challenge) storage per team
Software installed
A wide range of system software as described in the documentation.
User software can be directly installed in home and project spaces.
Singularity containers are supported.
GPUs if any
Access to Nvidia A100 GPUs on request.
User access
Users accounts
Teams members must request a user account by completing this form, specifying:
Institution: SKAO
Center: SKAO
Department: SKAO
Responsible [staff member] of the department: Dr. Susana Sánchez
Having filled this document, team members will receive an email to confirm the data of the request, and once confirmed, another email will be sent with a PDF. That PDF must be signed either with a digital certificate or manually, and sent by email to usuarios_sistemas@cesga.es
Once CESGA receives this document the users will get the credentials to access our facilities.
Logging in
To access the system with SSH a VPN connection is needed. Detailed documentation to setup the VPN and connect with SSH is provided in CESGA documentation.
Resource management
Compute nodes are managed through SLURM.
FinisTerrae-III provides extensive monitoring and resource tracking capabilities.
Credits and acknowledgements
We kindly request you to acknowledge the CESGA in any work or publication derived from its use as indicated in the specific conditions of use of CESGA computing resources: https://www.cesga.es/en/community/service-request/
Support
Users can request support via email at sistemas@cesga.es
Participants can join our Slack workspace by emailing sistemas@cesga.es and request to be added.