Lightweight HPC (freebio[1-4], bioint0[1-4]) is a resource for all UiO users interested in testing out scientific applications, simulation software, parallel code etc. This service is free of charge for all UiO users.
These are stand-alone machines for low-threshold use, and with best-effort user support.
Note that there is no batch system, i.e you can not run jobs that span over two machines (like on a typical HPC system). There is therefore no queue system, so use the machines in a solidaric way!
Alternatives:
There is also Fox in Educloud. Fox has a job submission queueing system and has a somewhat more streamlined setup, in addition to interactive nodes similar to the ML-nodes.
Looking for some other computing service? This page may help you.
What are Freebio[1-4] ?
- These are ARM based servers running Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) and the very few ARM based HPC servers in production in Norway. The processors all run a large set of software and are popular with Julia and R.
- Freebio1 + Freebio2 have 64 cores (Cortex A72), 256 GiB RAM and a 36 TiB of local disk and run RHEL.
- Freebio[3-4] have 96 cores (Neoverse N1), 512 GiB RAM and a 3.5 TiB scratch area (/scratch) on local NVME disk and run Ubuntu.
How to use
Freebio[2-4] and Bioint0[1-4] are available to all UiO users and partners that are granted an UiO account.
Get access by filling in this nettskjema.
What are bioint0[1-4]?
- These are AMD/Intel based servers running Linux (RHEL) and a selection of software. Common software is installed as modules and yet other per demand.
- bioint01 has AMD EPYC 7501 CPUs, 128 cores and 128 GB RAM and a 7.3 TB scratch area (/work) on local disk.
- bioint0[2-4] have Intel Xeon E5-2690 CPUs, 32 cores and 512 GB RAM each.