Hardware
Allocations and Accounts
Connecting to the Cluster
Using the Frontends
Most access requires a VPN
To install the VPN client on your computer, go to https://in.virginia.edu/vpn and follow the instructions.
UVA RC provides options to log in to frontends
Authenticate through Netbadge
Once logged in, you will see the Dashboard.
Examine and manipulate files and submit jobs
Access applications such as JupyterLab, RStudio Server, and FastX
The default is for each application to open in a new tab. Return to the Dashboard as the “home page.”
Start JupyterLab.
FastX is accessible either as an interactive application through Open OnDemand or directly at https://rivanna-desktop.hpc.virginia.edu
FastX requires your Eservices password. This is not necessarily the same as your Netbadge password.
You may go to System->Log Out When you confirm logging out, this will terminate your session
You can also go to the FastX login page. Each session should appear as a terminal icon. Select the session and click the x in the upper-right corner.
Or go to the blue menu icon and select Terminate.
You will be in your home directory (folder).
The home folder on Rivanna has 50GB of storage capacity.
The home folder is for personal use and is not shareable with other users.
“Snapshots” of your files over the last seven days are available.
The frontend nodes are for short “housekeeping” tasks such as
You may run very short test runs with a limited number of cores and amount of memory. Your process will be terminated if it exceeds the time or memory limit.
You may not run multiple processes at once, nor may you run production jobs.
Storage Options
Command-Line and Modules
SLURM and Job Submissions
Each user will have access to 10 TB of temporary storage. It is located in a subfolder under /scratch, and named with your userID e.g., /scratch/mst3k
You are limited to 350,000 files in your scratch area.
Your /scratch folder is for personal use and is not shareable with other users.
Important /scratch is NOT permanent storage and files that have not been accessed for more than 90 days will be marked for deletion.
Your files on scratch are NOT backed up. Deleted files are not recoverable.
We recommend that you run your jobs out of your /scratch folder for two reasons:
We also recommend that
You keep copies of your programs and data in more permanent locations (e.g., your home folder or leased storage).
After your jobs finish, copy the results to more permanent storage.
Two options are available for a monthly fee. Access is through groups that may but are not required to correspond to Rivanna allocation groups. All members of the group can access the storage, but not necessarily individual folders.
git clone command to copy git repositories.More details are available at our data-transfer page
To see how much disk space you have used in your home and scratch directories, open a Terminal window (see next few slides) and
type hdquota at the command-line prompt:
Type Location Name Size Used Avail Use%
================================================================================
home /home mst3k 50G 45G 5.6G 89%
Project /project servo_lab 1.8P 1.7P 117T 94%
Value /nv vol67 1000G 84G 917G 9%
Location Age_Limit(Days) Disk_Limit(GB) Use(GB) File_Limit Use
================================================================================
/scratch/mst3k 90 10240 147 350000 28387
Modules and SLURM require that you type a few commands from the command line.
Learning to use the command line and a text editor will make you a more productive user of Rivanna. Please see our Using Rivanna from the Command Line tutorial for an introduction.
In the examples below, the characters up to and included the $ are the prompt. Do not type them. The prompt may differ for different users. It indicates that the system is ready for input.
Edit button.To see how much disk space you have used in your home and scratch directories, open a Terminal window and
type hdquota at the command-line prompt:
Type Location Name Size Used Avail Use%
================================================================================
home /home mst3k 50G 45G 5.6G 89%
Project /project servo_lab 1.8P 1.7P 117T 94%
Value /nv vol67 1000G 84G 917G 9%
Location Age_Limit(Days) Disk_Limit(GB) Use(GB) File_Limit Use
================================================================================
/scratch/mst3k 90 10240 147 350000 28387
Modules set up your environment to make it easier for you to use software packages.
module load command.bash-4.2$module load matlab
bash-4.2$module load anaconda/5.2.0-py3.6
bash-4.2$module load goolf/7.1.0_3.1.4 R/3.6.3
module avail – Lists all available modules and versions.module spider – Shows all available modulesmodule key _keyword_ – Shows modules with the keyword in the descriptionmodule list – Lists modules loaded in your environment.module load mymod – Loads the default module to set up the environment for some software.module load mymod/N.M – Loads a specific version N.M of software mymod.module load _compiler_ _mpi_ _mymod_ – For compiler- and MPI- specific modules, loads the modules in the appropriate order and, optionally, the version.module purge – Clears all modules.To locate a python module, try the following:
bash-4.2$ module avail python
bash-4.2$ module spider python
bash-4.2$ module key python
To find bioinformatics software packages, try this:
bash-4.2$ module key bio
The available software is also listed on our website:
https://www.rc.virginia.edu/userinfo/rivanna/software/complete-list/
SLURM is a resource manager, also called a queueing system.
For details and sample scripts, please see our SLURM pages at http://www.rc.virginia.edu/userinfo/rivanna/slurm Much more information is available at http://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html
qlist at the command-line prompt. Not all users have access to all partitions.bash-4.2$ qlist
Queue Total Free Jobs Jobs Time SU
(partition) Cores Cores Running Pending Limit Charge
======================================================================
bii 4600 3254 59 647 7-00:00:00 1
standard 6004 2569 898 394 7-00:00:00 1
dev 216 188 5 1 1:00:00 0
parallel 5760 4328 23 0 3-00:00:00 1
instructional 560 460 1 0 3-00:00:00 1
largemem 80 16 17 96 4-00:00:00 1
gpu 472 262 38 35 3-00:00:00 3
bii-gpu 320 280 1 0 3-00:00:00 1
knl 2048 1280 0 0 3-00:00:00 1
pcore 144 44 2 0 infinite 1
| Name | Purpose | Job Time Limit | Memory/Node | Cores/Node | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| standard | Single compute node | 7 days | 256 GB/ 384GB | 28/40 | |
| gpu | GPU jobs | 3 days | 256GB | 28 | |
| parallel | Multi-node parallel | 3 days | 384 GB | 40 | |
| largemem | Memory-intensive jobs | 4 days | 1 TB/1.5 TB | 16 | |
| dev | Short test jobs | 1 hour | 256 GB/ 128 GB | 28/20 |
bash-4.2$qlimits
Queue Maximum Maximum Minimum Maximum Maximum Default Maximum Minimum
(partition) Submit Cores/User Cores/Job Mem/Node(MB) Mem/Core(MB) Mem/Core(MB) Nodes/Job Nodes/Job
========================================================================================================================
bii 10000 400 384000 8500 112
standard 10000 1000 112000+ 9000 1
dev 10000 16 127000+ 9000 9000 2
parallel 2000 900 384000 9000 6000 45 2
instructional 50 8 127000 1000 5
largemem 10000 32 1000000 64000 60000 2
gpu 10000 16 188000+ 32000 6000 4
bii-gpu 10000 384000 8500 8
knl 2000 900 16 180000 768 8
pcore 10000 550000 2000 16
allocations at the command-line prompt (represented here by -bash-4.2$:
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To see how many SUs you have available for running jobs, type allocations at the command-line prompt (represented here by -bash-4.2$):bash-4.2$allocations
Allocations available to Misty S. Theatre (mst3k):
* robot_build: less than 6,917 service-units remaining.
* gizmonic-testing: less than 5,000 service-units remaining.
* crow-lab: less than 2,978 service-units remaining.
* gypsy: no service-units remaining
allocation_name, please run:bash-4.2$allocations -a allocation_name
A SLURM script is a bash shell script with SLURM directives (#SBATCH) and command-line instructions for running your program.
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --nodes=1 #total number of nodes for the job
#SBATCH --ntasks=1 #how many copies of code to run
#SBATCH --time=1-12:00:00 #amount of time for the whole job
#SBATCH --partition=standard #the queue/partition to run on
#SBATCH --account=myGroupName #the account/allocation to use
module purge
module load goolf/7.1.0_3.1.4 R #load modules that my job needs
Rscript myProg.R #command-line execution of my job
To submit the SLURM command file to the queue, use the sbatch command at the command line prompt.
For example, if the script on the previous slide is in a file named job_script.slurm, we can submit it as follows:
bash-4.2$ sbatch job_script.slurm
Submitted batch job 18316
The system responds with the job ID number.
To display the status of only your active jobs, type:
bash-4.2$squeue –u <your_user_id>
The squeue command will show pending jobs and running jobs, but not failed, canceled or completed jobs.
Typing squeue alone shows all jobs in all partitions.
Typing squeue -p
To display the status of all jobs, type:
bash-4.2$sacct –S <start_date>
The sacct command lists all jobs (pending, running, completed, canceled, failed, etc.) since the specified date.
bash-4.2$ sacct –S 2019-01-29
3104009 RAxML_NoC+ standard hpc_build 20 COMPLETED 0:0
3104009.bat+ batch hpc_build 20 COMPLETED 0:0
3104009.0 raxmlHPC-+ hpc_build 20 COMPLETED 0:0
3108537 sys/dashb+ gpu hpc_build 1 CANCELLED+ 0:0
3108537.bat+ batch hpc_build 1 CANCELLED 0:15
3108562 sys/dashb+ gpu hpc_build 1 TIMEOUT 0:0
3108562.bat+ batch hpc_build 1 CANCELLED 0:15
3109392 sys/dashb+ gpu hpc_build 1 TIMEOUT 0:0
3109392.bat+ batch hpc_build 1 CANCELLED 0:15
3112064 srun gpu hpc_build 1 FAILED 1:0
3112064.0 bash hpc_build 1 FAILED 1:0
To delete a job from the queue, use the scancel command with the job ID number at the command line prompt:
bash-4.2$ scancel 18316
To cancel all your jobs, type
bash-4.2$ scancel –u $USER
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