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Compute Resources

  • In general, the offers are limited to members of I-MATH and their students.
  • Other UZH members are welcome to contact support@math.uz.ch .

  • First time user: contact support@math.uzh.ch first.

Reservations

  • Short (<1day) computations don't need a reservation,

  • Longer (>1day) are reccomended to be done with a reservation.

  • With reservation: In case of maintenance need, we typically schedule the maintenance according to the needs of the user.
  • Without reservation: We try to contact the user and wait several hours for an answer.
  • General: if we see running computations, we always contact the user first (independent of whether or not a reservation exists). If the user doesn't answer (weekend, holiday, ...) we decide on our own what to do.

Offers

  • For small / ad hoc computations, just start the compute software via the thinlinc environment.
  • For medium computations, please contact support@math.uzh.ch to ask for the best fitting possibilty and to reserve nodes.

  • For large computations and professional support please check http://www.s3it.uzh.ch/.

Resources at IMATH

Host

CPU type

Cores

RAM

Local disk

Purchase

Purpose

CPU specs

OS

rambo

1 x AMD EPYC 7742 2,25GHz

64 (HT enabled )

512GB

240GB, 2TB

08/2021

research

AMD-EPYC-7742

Ubuntu 22.04

olive

1 x AMD EPYC 7502P 2,5GHz

32 (HT enabled )

512GB

240GB

04/2022

research

AMD-EPYC-7502P

Ubuntu 22.04

oja

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Ubuntu 20.04

stokes

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Ubuntu 22.04

walker

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student

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Ubuntu 22.04

GPU

Host

GPU model

VRAM

Purchase

Threads

CPU Specs

OS

brady

1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming

8GB

02/2018

12 (HT enabled)

1 x Intel Core 6C i7-8700K 3.70GHz

Ubuntu 22.04

david

2 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming

8GB

05/2013

80 (HT disabled)

8 x Intel Xeon 10C E7-2850 2.0 GHz

Ubuntu 22.04

Old

Host

CPU type

Cores

RAM

Local disk

Purchase

Purpose

CPU specs

OS

brady

1 x Intel Core 6C i7-8700K 3.70GHz

12 (HT enabled)

64GB

80GB,2TB

02/2018

research

i7-8700K

Ubuntu 22.04

david

8 x Intel Xeon 10C E7-2850 2.0 GHz

80 (HT disabled)

2 TB

300 GB

05/2013

research

E7-2850

Ubuntu 22.04

estonia0

2 x Intel Xeon 6C E5-2640 2.50 GHz

12 (HT disabled)

256 GB

2TB

05/2013

research

E5-2640

Ubuntu 22.04

estonia1

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Ubuntu 22.04

iran3

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Ubuntu 22.04

jordan0

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professor & assistant: matlab, mathematica, maple, R

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Ubuntu 22.04

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Concept

Access

  • The compute nodes can be accessed by SSH only from inside I-MATH.

  • Use thinlinc

    • matlab, mathematica, maple, R, rstudio: just start the application via menu 'Applications > Science > ...' - you'll automatically be redirected to the appropriate compute server.

    • For non standard compute software please first log on the compute node via 'ssh', then start the program.
  • SSH: Log onto 'ssh.math.uzh.ch' and jump to the compute node again via 'ssh'.

Operating System

  • Ubuntu LTS (Linux) - all compute servers.
  • Very very limited software might be installed on some Windows virtual machines.

Storage

  • If you need more disk space, please contact support@math.uzh.ch .

  • Remote (NFS)
    • Personal Home directory
    • /compute/<account>

  • Local
    • /export/user/<account>

Programs / Software

  • All compute servers use the same applications and versions as installed on the thinlinc terminals.
  • Please report missing or outdated software or wishes to support@math.uzh.ch .

  • There is no Intel C or Intel Fortran Compiler.
  • If you need other program versions than the default one: open a terminal, type the program name followed by two 'TAB' presses: this will show all available installed versions of the specified program.

Parallel computing

  • Cluster software
    • Not installed / offered at I-MATH.
    • Various MPI packages and libs are installed. Compiling and preparation to run programs later on a distributed compute cluster are possible.
  • Some programs, like matlab, offer limited built-in auto parallelization.

  • All of the compute nodes are shared memory machines. It's reasonable to start as many programs in parallel as long the load is less or equal the number of cores.

    • Determine the load by using the command uptime via a terminal. The last three numbers are the average number of jobs (=load) in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes.

      $ uptime
       15:55:20 up 22 days, 24 min,  1 user,  load average: 11.97, 11.73, 11.62

Limitations

  • Memory
    • Soft: 64GB
    • Hard: unlimited
  • Number of processes per user
    • Soft: 2048
    • Hard: 4096
  • Change limitations

$ ulimit -m unlimited
$ ulimit -u 4096
  • Make sure to increase a hard limit only one time. If you try to increase it a second time, you'll get an error. You have to log out and log in again to get a new chance.