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UF Research Computing: Introduction and Getting Started

UF Research Computing: Introduction and Getting Started. Erik Deumens Research Computing. Mission. Create opportunities for research and scholarship Improve competitiveness in securing external funding Provide to UF researchers

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UF Research Computing: Introduction and Getting Started

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  1. UF Research Computing:Introduction and Getting Started Erik Deumens Research Computing

  2. Mission • Create opportunities for research and scholarship • Improve competitiveness in securing external funding • Provide to UF researchers • High-performance computing and big data storage resources • Support, training, and consulting services

  3. Funding and operation • Funding for people and machines • Provost, VP Research, CIO, Deans • Faculty participation for hardware purchases • Research Computing Matching Program • Limited use for any UF faculty member • Up to 8 cores at the same time • Buying-in gets access to and priority on additional resources • Comprehensive management • Hardware maintenance and 24x7 monitoring • Relieve researchers of the majority of systems administration tasks

  4. Matching Program 2011

  5. Matching Program 2012 • Same budget of $300K • Currently $250K already committed (Nov 2012)

  6. Services offered • NCU Normalized Compute Units • 1 core in node with RAM, network, access to 230 TB fast scratch storage • Acquisition is for 5 years • Cost: $400 per NCU • RSU Replicated long-term Storage Units • 1 TB for 1 year • Cost: $250 per RSU • LSU Long-term Storage Units • 1 TB for 1 year • Cost: $125 per LSU

  7. Larsen Hall machine room

  8. Resources • Hardware Resources • Over 7,300cores AMD and Intel • High-speed, low-latency InfiniBandinterconnects • >1.5 PB, high performance Lustre and Nexenta storage • Dedicated MPI cluster for 64-way and up to 512. • 80 GPUs—for CUDA code, etc. • Several large memory (512 GB, 1 TB) nodes

  9. Coming in 2013 • Internet2 Innovation Platform • Campus connection to Internet upgrade • From 10 Gpbs to 100 Gpbs • Campus Research Network from 20 to 200 Gbps • New Data Center on Eastside Campus • 5,000 sq. ft. space for research computing • 10,000 sq.ft and 1.75 MW total • New cluster • 16,000 cores AMD • Infiniband interconnect • 2.8 PB (raw) fast, high-availability, storage

  10. Usage priorities • Investors get fast access • To the nr of cores they bought • Within minutes to at most an hour • Check that your job can actually run • Also check that others in the group did not use all slots • Can burst up to 10 times that nr if cores are idle • Not continuous use of 10 times the nr of cores • Non-investors can use • Up to 8 cores simultaneously • Lower priority than investors to start jobs

  11. Getting started • User Accounts • Qualifications: • Current UF faculty, UF graduate student, and researchers • Request at: http://www.hpc.ufl.edu/support/ • Requirements: • GatorLink Authentication • Faculty sponsorship for graduate students and researchers

  12. Help and support • Help Request Tickets • https://support.hpc.ufl.edu • For any kind of question or help requests • Searchable database of solutions • We are here to help! • support@hpc.ufl.edu

  13. Documentation • http://wiki.hpc.ufl.edu • Documents on hardware and software resources • Various user guides • Many sample submission scripts • http://hpc.ufl.edu/support • Frequently Asked Questions • Account set up and maintenance

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