Slurm GPU Resources (Kebnekaise)

We have two types of GPU cards available on Kebnekaise, NVIDIA Tesla K80 (Kepler) and NVIDIA Tesla V100 (Volta).

To request GPU resources one has to include a GRES in the submit file. The general format is:

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:<type-of-card>:x

where <type-of-card> is either k80 or v100 and x = 1, 2, or 4 (4 only for the K80 type).

The K80 enabled nodes contain either two or four K80 cards, each K80 card contains two gpu engines.

Slurm OpenMP Examples

This example shows a 28 core OpenMP Job (maximum size for one normal node on Kebnekaise).

#!/bin/bash
# Example with 28 cores for OpenMP
#
# Project/Account
#SBATCH -A hpc2n-1234-56
#
# Number of cores
#SBATCH -c 28
#
# Runtime of this jobs is less then 12 hours.
#SBATCH --time=12:00:00
#

# Clear the environment from any previously loaded modules
module purge > /dev/null 2>&1

# Load the module environment suitable for the job
module load foss/2019a
​
# Set OMP_NUM_THREADS to the same value as -c
# with a fallback in case it isn't set.

SLURM commands and information

There are many more commands than the ones we have chosen to look at below, but they are the most commonly used ones. You can find more information on the SLURM homepage: SLURM documentation

You can run programs either by giving all the commands on the command line or by submitting a job script. If you ask for the resources on the command line, you will wait for the program to run before you can use the window again (unless you can send it to the background with &).