NCSA's Innovative Systems Lab hosts the ISL-cluster as a testbed for new HPC servers and services, combining best practices in cluster management with testing on new methods of cluster access, management, services and deployment. The cluster is active in testing and new operational services, so uptime and availability are not guaranteed. Please ensure that you keep a copy of all important data elsewhere.

In publications and presentations that use results obtained on this system, please include the following acknowledgement: “This work utilizes resources supported by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign”.

Innovative Systems Lab (ISL) cluster

Host name: isl-login01.ncsa.illinois.edu

Hardware

  • 4x GPU compute nodes
    • Dell PowerEdge R730
    • 2x Intel CPUs
    • 2x NVIDIA V100 GPUs
  • Dell testbed nodes
    • AMD Genoa CPU node (high core/high ram)
    • AMD Genoa GPU node w/ MI2xx (AMD GPU testbed)
    • Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU node (high core count)
    • Intel Sapphire Rapids HBM CPU node (high core count)

Software

Documentation

To request access: contact Dan Lapine at lapine@illinois.edu.

To report problems: email us with ISL-cluster in the subject

Real-time Dashboards: https://metrics.ncsa.illinois.edu/ (work in progress)

Quick start guide:

To connect to the cluster: 

ssh <username>@isl-login01.ncsa.illinois.edu

To submit interactive job:

srun --pty -p cpu -- bash

To submit interactive job to the himem node:

srun --pty -p cpu -w isl-cpu-genoa01 -- bash

To submit a batch job:

sbatch run_script.sb

Job Queue time limits:

  • "gpu" and "cpu" queues:  24 hours

Storage:

  • shared /home
    • nfs served from isl-login01
  • shared /project space
    • lustre on flash storage served via Infiniband
  • Taiga access on isl-cluster01
    • nfs served via 10Gbe link

Resource limits:

  • 5GB quota for /home
  • 1TB quota for /projects

To see CLI scheduler status:

sinfo

Main -> Systems -> Isl cluster

Contact us

Request access to this system: lapine@illinois.edu

Contact ISL staff: Email Address

Visit: NCSA, room 3006H



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