Dear User,
USIT ITF are happy to announce the new service called lightweight HPC. A
service with close to no entry level, free for all and interactive. This service
is for users who have needs that are too small to involve any kind of project
management and just need to run some computation on a powerful server.
You can think of it as en extension of your desktop, calculator or laptop. As
this little farm of compute nodes has been set up with varying architectures
and capabilities, it is also a testing ground for new technology.
All systems in the lightweight-HPC farm share a common $HOME mounted
on the UiO IBM-ESS storage, meaning that you'll find your files on all the in
systems this collection. As the systems are interactive you might find that
some nodes are more loaded than others, so as with all free seating situations
you might have to look for a less loaded one.
Users who overuse the system face themselves in the happy situation as being
candidates for migration to larger HPC systems, the "Forskerplattformen", the
national Sigma2 systems or even the world class systems like the Pre-exascale
system LUMI where Norway/Sigma2 participate.
The system freebio.hpc hold a selection of bio-informatics databases so if you
need something along these lines look for it there (under /work).
There are three more machines coming into this service within the next couple
of weeks: bioint02, bioint03 and bioint04. Like bioint01 they are all x84_64
machines (freebio and freebio2 are both aarch64). More info about them will be
published on this page before launch:
/english/services/it/research/hpc/freebee/index.html
To get access to this service, please send an email with your UiO username to hpc-drift@usit.uio.no
If you have any questions or software requests, please don't hesitate to write
us an email at hpc-drift@usit.uio.no
Happy Hacking!