To request access: fill out this form. Make sure to follow the link on the application confirmation page to request actual system account.

To report problems: email us.

User group Slack space: http://go.illinois.edu/hal

Real-time system status: https://hal-monitor.ncsa.illinois.edu:3000/

Quick start guide: (for complete details see Documentation section on the left)

To connect to the cluster:


ssh username@hal.ncsa.illinois.edu 

To submit interactive job:

srun --partition=debug --pty --nodes=1 \
  --ntasks-per-node=12 --cores-per-socket=12 \
  --gres=gpu:v100:1 --mem-per-cpu=1500 \
  --time=2:00:00 --wait=0 --export=ALL /bin/bash 

To submit a batch job:

sbatch run_script.sb  

See run_script.sb for a basic example.

Job Queue time limits:

• Interactive "debug" queue: 4 hours
• Batch queues:  72 hours

To load IBM PowerAI module:

module load powerai