NEW cluster zelda available

NEW cluster zelda available

Dear users,

I'm glad to announce you the MetaCentrum's computing capacity was extended with a new SMP clusterzelda[1-10].cerit-sc.cz (location Brno, owner CERIT-SC), 760 CPU cores in 10 nodes, each node with the following specification:

• CPU: 4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz
• RAM: 768 GB
• Disk: 4x 4TB 7.2k + 2x 1.8 TB SSD
• SPECfp2006 performance of each node: 2700 (37,5 na jádro)
• Net: 1x Infiniband 56 Gbit/s (will be connected later), 1x Ethernet 10 Gbit/s
• Actually it supports up to 4 hour jobs only.
• OS: Debian 9

The cluster can be accessed via the conventional job submission through PBS Pro batch system (@wagap-pro server) in default queue. Only short jobs are supporting from the beginning.

• To submit job on zelda machine with Debian9, please use "os=debian9" in job specification:

zuphux$ qsub -l select=1:ncpus=2:mem=1gb:scratch_local=1gb:os=debian9 …

• For completeness, to run tasks on a machine with any OS, type "os = ^ any"

zuphux$ qsub -l select=1:ncpus=2:mem=1gb:scratch_local=1gb:os=^any …

If you experience any problem with libraries or applications compatibility, please, you can try to add module debian8-compat. All problems and incompatibility issues, please, report us to meta@cesnet.cz.

For complete list of available HW in MetaCentrum see http://metavo.metacentrum.cz/pbsmon2/hardware

With best regards,
MetaCentrum