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In order to test performance portability across a wide range of devices, we maintain a small cluster containing many different accelerator technologies.
Please request access by email in the first instance.
Please be aware that the Zoo is currently offline due to a significant planned upgrade. The following information on this page refers to te previous Zoo and will be uodated for the opening of the upgraded Zoo shortly.
The upgraded Zoo will contain new hardware including NEC Aurora, Ampere CPUs, NVIDIA Turing GPUs and AMD Radeon VII GPUs.
| Name | Class | Architecture | Queue command |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA K20m | HPC GPU | Kepler | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:k20 |
| NVIDIA K40m | HPC GPU | Kepler | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:k40 |
| NVIDIA GTX 580 | Consumer GPU | Fermi | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:gtx580 |
| NVIDIA GTX 680 | Consumer GPU | Kepler | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:gtx680 |
| NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti | Consumer GPU | Kepler | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:gtx780ti |
| NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti | Consumer GPU | Maxwell | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:gtx980ti |
| NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti | Consumer GPU | Pascal | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:gtx1080ti |
| NVIDIA GTX TITAN X | Consumer GPU | Pascal | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:titanx |
| NVIDIA GTX 2080 Ti | Consumer GPU | Turing | Coming Soon! |
| AMD S9150 | HPC GPU | Hawaii | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:s9150 |
| AMD S10000 | HPC GPU | Tahiti | Unavailable |
| AMD HD7970 | Consumer GPU | Tahiti | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:hd7970 |
| AMD R9-295X2 | Consumer GPU | Hawaii | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:r9-295x2 |
| AMD R9-290X | Consumer GPU | Hawaii | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:r9-290x |
| AMD Fury X | Consumer GPU | Fiji | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:furyx |
| AMD RX 480 | Consumer GPU | Polaris | -lnodes=1:gpus=1:rx480 |
| AMD Radeon VII | Consumer GPU | Vega 20 | Coming Soon! |
| Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 | Server CPU | Ivy Bridge | -lnodes=1:ppn=24:ivybridge |
| AMD A10-7850K Radeon R7 | APU | Kaveri | -lnodes=1:kaveri |
| Intel Xeon Phi 7210 | MIC | KNL | -lnodes=1:ppn=256:knl |
| NVIDIA Jetson TX1 | ARMv8 | Cortex-A57 | -lnodes=1:ppn=4:jetson |
| SoftIron Overdrive 1000 | ARMv8 | Cortex-A57 | -lnodes=1:ppn=4:overdrive |
| NEC Aurora | Accelerator | SX | Coming Soon! |
When running on the KNL, please see additional documentation.
Connect to the headnode via ssh at hpc.cs.bris.ac.uk.
Tools and compilers are made available via the module command.
List available software: module avail
Load a module: module load <name>
Unload a module: module unload <name>
We have a selection of MPI builds installed for a variety of circumstances. It is recommended to have only one MPI module loaded at once to prevent interference.
The Intel modules include the Intel MPI library.
OpenMPI is built in a number of flavours. Unless a compiler version is specified they use the default GCC v4.8.4 compilers.
We use the TORQUE (PBS) queueing system to manage job allocations of the cluster.
List the nodes and their current availability by running
znodes
You can launch an interactive job requesting the gpu <name> (all lower case) using
qsub -lnodes=1:gpus=1:<name> -I
You can specify any NVIDIA or AMD gpu using the following:
qsub -lnodes=1:gpus=1:nvidia -I
qsub -lnodes=1:gpus=1:amd -I
You can also request by architecture, for example:
qsub -lnodes=1:gpus=1:kepler