HPC Cluster Navigator. Full description at https://www.uc.pt/lca/computing-resources/navigator-cluster/
Direct ssh to Navigator cluster after creating the respective account.
Slurm is used as resource management. New users have access to full documentation about the system and software environment in a internal Wiki page,
Users can install software, and have access to system wide applications and tools installed via environment modules.
Full documentation about the system and software environment in a internal Wiki page is available to new users. Some information is provided in UC-LCA site.
Support is available via ticketing system (helpdesk). Tickets response are limited to business days. Moderate knowledge of Linux and Job Schedulers is expected.
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Suitable flavors for UC-LCA-UC HPC depend on the Slurm partition used (For a fixed CPU time duration agreed with SDC3 hosts):
up to 1024 cores with 4GB/core;
up to 160 cores with 8GB/core
SMP system with 72 cores and 3TB memory.
disk up to 10TB
Linux CentOS. Users can install software, and have access to system wide applications and tools installed via environment modules.
A share disk space quota is assigned to each team.
GPU partition provides access to Nvidia V100 GPUs with 16GB memory.
Open accounts by request (email to helpdesk.lca@uc.pt).
Use a ssh client to login to navigator https://www.uc.pt/lca/computing-resources/navigator-cluster/#general-information
Authentication is done by private/public key exchange. Users are encouraged to protect their private key with a passphrase. See https://www.uc.pt/lca/cluster-access/#request-access
Information in the internal Wiki page
Users can install software and have access to system wide applications and tools installed via environment modules.
Users can use Singularity to run containers on the Navigator cluster.
Full documentation about the system and software environment in a internal Wiki page is available to new users. Some information is provided in UC-LCA site.
For Navigator Cluster, resource management is done via SLURM job scheduler. Each team will be assigned to an account with a predefined number of hours and disk quota.
Statistics of resource usage will appear on the login page and the sbank utility is available as well.
Support is available via a ticketing system (helpdesk.lca@uc.pt). Tickets response are limited to business days. Moderate knowledge of Linux and Job Schedulers is expected.
Teams making use of UC-LCA resources in their publication, they should Acknowledge it as follows :
The authors acknowledge the Laboratory for Advanced Computing at University of Coimbra for providing {HPC, computing, consulting} resources that have contributed to the research results reported within this paper or work. See https://www.uc.pt/lca/about/