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"My name is HAL. I became operational on March 25 2019 at the Innovative Systems Lab in Urbana, Illinois. My creators are putting me to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do." (paraphrased from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000)

In publications and presentations that use results obtained on this system, please include the following acknowledgement: “This work utilizes resources supported by the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation program, grant #1725729, as well as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign”.

Also, please include the following reference in your publications: “V. Kindratenko, D. Mu, Y. Zhan, J. Maloney, S. Hashemi, B. Rabe, K. Xu, R. Campbell, J. Peng, and W. Gropp. HAL: Computer System for Scalable Deep Learning. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’20), July 26–30, 2020, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396649”.

Hardware-Accelerated Learning (HAL) cluster


Info

Effective May 19, 2020, two-factor authentication via NCSA Duo is now required for SSH logins on HAL. See https://go.ncsa.illinois.edu/2fa for instructions to sign up.

System Description


Host name: hal.ncsa.illinois.edu

Hardware

GTG
    • GTH AC922 server
      • 2x 20-core IBM POWER9 CPU @ 2.
00GHz
GB

Software

RHEL 7
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  • IBM XLC 16.1.1
  • IBM XLFORTRAN 16.1.1
  • Advance toolchain for Linux on Power 12.0

    • Documentation

    Science on HAL

    Software for HAL

    PowerAI 1.6.0


    To request access: fill out this form

    . Usage notes:

    . Make sure to follow the link in the confirmation email to request actual system account.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    To report problems: email us

    For our new users: New User Guide for HAL System

    User group Slack space: https://join.slack.com/t/halillinoisncsa

    Real-time Dashboards: Here

    HAL OnDemand portal: https://hal-ondemand.ncsa.illinois.edu/

    Globus Endpoint: ncsa#hal

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

    To connect to the cluster:

    Code Block
    ssh <username>@hal
    to connect to the cluster, run "ssh username@hal
    .ncsa.illinois.edu
    "
  • to submit sbatch job, run "sbatch run_script.sb"
  • to submit interactive job, run
    "srun --partition=debug --pty --nodes=1 --ntasks-per-node=32 \
    --gres=gpu:v100:1 -t 01:30:00 --wait=0 --export=ALL /bin/bash"
  • to load IBM powerai module, run "module load ibm/powerai"
    •

    To submit interactive job:

    Code Block
    languagebash
    swrun -p gpux1

    To submit a batch job:

    Code Block
    swbatch run_script.swb

    Job Queue time limits:

    • "debug" queue: 4 hours
    • "gpux<n>" and "cpun<n>" queues:  24 hours

    Resource limits:

    • 5 concurrently running jobs
    • concurrently allocated resources
      • 5 nodes
      • 16 GPUs
    • For larger/more numerous jobs, please contact admins for a special arrangement and/or a reservation

    To load the OpenCE module (provides PyTorch, Tensorflow and other ML tools):

    Code Block
    module load opence

    To see CLI scheduler status:

    Code Block
    swqueue
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    Main -> Systems -> NanoHAL
    Contact us
    Request access to ISL resourcesthis system: Application
    Contact ISL staff: Email Address
    Visit: NCSA, room 3050E

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