High performance computing - HPC

The full name is the Division de Calcul et Soutien à la Recherche / Computing and Research Suppor...

The DCSR maintains a general purpose cluster (Curnagl) which is described here.  Researchers need...

It's easy! Please fill in the request form at https://conference.unil.ch/research-resource-reques...

Before asking for help please take the time to check that your question hasn't already been answe...

This depends on where the file was and when it was created and deleted. /scratch There is no ba...

Kesako? Curnagl (Romanche), or Chocard à bec jaune in French, is a sociable bird known for its...

Following the migration to the CCT datacenter there are a number of things that have changed that...

Where is data stored The recommended place to store all important data is on the DCSR NAS which ...

Jura is a cluster for the analysis of sensitive data and is primarily used by the CHUV. The Jura...

Kesako? Urblauna (Romanche), or Lagopède Alpin in French, is a bird known for its changing plumag...

Overview Suppose that you have finished writing your code, say a python code called <my_code.py>...

In order to find out what projects you are part of on the clusters then you can use the Sproject ...

In order to allow non UNIL collaborators to use the HPC clusters there are three steps which are ...

GPU Nodes Both Curnagl and Urblauna have nodes with GPUs - on Curnagl these are in a separate ...

The simple answer is that you can't without special authorisation. Please do not submit such jobs...

The NAS is available from the login node only under /nas. The folder hierarchy is: /nas/FAC/<you...

This page presents how to connect to DCSR cluster depending on your operating system. Linux SSH...

Introduction As you probably noticed, execution time for jobs in DCSR clusters is limited to 3 d...

Connecting to Urblauna The Urblauna cluster is intended for the processing of sensitive data and ...

Migration schedule and deadlines Once the Urblauna cluster is officially in service the decomm...

Here you can find example job script templates for a variety of job types Single-threaded tasks ...

Resolving connnection problems There can sometimes be communication issues between the web based ...

Urblauna Urblauna is the new UNIL cluster for sensitive data and will replace the Jura cluster. s...

How do I transfer my code to Curnagl? How do I get my results back on my computer?   There are ...

What is it? The DCSR provides a software environment including commonly used scientific tools an...

The old (Vital-IT) software stack can be accessed on Curnagl via the following commands $ source...

To illustrate the procedure we will compile and run a MPI hello world example from mpitutorial.co...

The full version of MATLAB is only installed on the login and interactive nodes so in order to ru...

Conda is a package manager system for Python and other tools and is widely used in some areas suc...

Mamba is an alternative to Conda package manager. The main advantage is its speed regarding depen...

The training phase of your deep learning model may be very time consuming. To accelerate this pro...

The project home page where you can find the latest information is at https://github.com/deepmind...

R is provided via the DCSR software stack Interactive mode To load R: module load gcc r R # ...

This page gives an example of a local installation of a software, i.e. a software that will be on...

What is it? The DCSR hosted version control service (https://gitlab.dcsr.unil.ch) is primarily i...

A Singularity container is available for version 4.0.6 of Busco. To run it, you need to proceed a...

Installing new software on Jura is complicated because the cluster does not have Internet access....

Switch Filesender Filesender is a service provided by SWITCH to transfer files over http. Normal...

filetransfer.dcsr.unil.ch https://filetransfer.dcsr.unil.ch is a service provided by the DCSR to...

First of all, if you plan to use CryoSPARC on the cluster, please contact us to get a port number...

Container basics For how to use Singularity/Apptainer containers please see our course at: htt...

In the practicals, we will use only a small dataset and we will need only little computation powe...

In the practicals, we will use only a small dataset and we will need only little computation powe...

Rstudio can be run on the curnagl cluster from within a singularity container, with an interactiv...

Rstudio can be run on the Urblauna cluster from within a singularity container, with an interacti...

JupyterLab can be run on the curnagl cluster for testing purposes, only as an intermediate step i...

JupyterLab can be run on the curnagl cluster for testing purposes, only as an intermediate step i...

In order to use Dask in Curnagl you have to use the following packages: dask dask-jobqueue Not...

Isca is a framework for the idealized modelling of the global circulation of planetary atmosphere...

The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) is a collaborative project for developing atmospher...

Script to run OpenFOAM code You are using OpenFOAM on your computer and you need more ressources...

If you see the following error when compiling a code on the cluster: fatal error: XXXX.h: No suc...

You can do the practicals on various computing platforms. However, since the participants may use...

Introduction This tutorial will guide you how to run intel profiling tools in AMD processors, we...

We are organising courses on a regular basis. Here are the topic addressed for the moment: Intro...