The Epyc cluster consists of 16 compute nodes based on the EPYC 7662 128 core processor.

The cluster has a grand total of 2048 cores (16 * 128 = 2048).

• Head node FQDN: epyc.simcenter.utc.edu
• Other nodes: epyc{00-15}

To log into the epyc cluster use the following command:

→ $ ssh epyc

To launch, a job submission script is used. An example script is as follows:

 #!/bin/bash
 
 # execute in the general partition 
 
#SBATCH --partition=general
 
 # execute with 40 processes/tasks 
 
#SBATCH --ntasks=40
 
 # execute on 4 nodes 
 
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=4
 
 # maximum time is 30 minutes 
 
#SBATCH --time=00:30:00
 
 # job name is my_job 
 
#SBATCH --job-name=my_job
 
 # load environment 
 
module load openmpi module load
 
 # application execution 
 
mpiexec application command line arguments

For non-MPI application users the srun process launcher is available for use.

 $ srun <application> <command line arguments>

To submit the script for execution on the compute nodes use the following command:

 $ sbatch job_script.sh

Exhaustive description of the “sbatch” command can be found in the official documentation.

To launch, the “srun” command is used. An example interactive job request is as follows:

To run an interactive job using GPUs, a user might execute:

Bash> $ srun --x11 --time=1-00:00:00 --nodelist=epyc08 --partition=gpu --gres=gpu:1 --ntasks=8 --pty /bin/bash -l

To run an interactive job without GPUs, a user might execute:

Bash> $srun --x11 --time=1-00:00:00 --nodelist=epyc09 --partition=general --ntasks=112 --pty /bin/bash -l

Exhaustive description of “srun” command can be found in the Official Documentation