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.

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=8 --gres=gpu:v100:1 \
-t 01:30:00 --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 queue: 12 hours
• Batch queue:  72 hours

To load IBM PowerAI module:

module load ibm/powerai