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: https://join.slack.com/t/halillinoisncsa

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:

swrun -p gpux1

or

srun --partition=gpux1 --pty --nodes=1 --ntasks-per-node=12 \
  --cores-per-socket=3 --threads-per-core=4 --sockets-per-node=1 \
  --gres=gpu:v100:1 --mem-per-cpu=1500 --time=2:00:00 --wait=0 \
  --export=ALL /bin/bash 

To submit a batch job:

swbatch run_script.swb  

or

sbatch run_script.sb  

See run_script.swb and run_script.sb for a basic example.

Job Queue time limits:

• "debug" queue: 4 hours
• "gpux<n>" and "cpun<n>" queues:  72 hours

To load IBM Watson Machine Learning Community Edition (former IBM PowerAI) module:

module load wmlce