Core Computational Facility @ UQ School of Mathematics and Physics
(get a recent picture of the getafix cluster)Welcome to the School of Mathematics and Physics Research Computing Resources Webpages.
Our goal of the Core Computational Facility is to support cutting-edge computing
resources and training to SMP researchers before moving more demanding calculations to
the UQ Resources and NCI computing systems.
Our facilities are system administrated by the ITS Research Infrastructure team.
System news will be posted through the email list ( smp-hpc@lists.science.uq.edu.au )
that you are automatically subscribed to once you have requested access to
getafix. You can also subscribe yourself to
http://lists.science.uq.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/smp-hpc
to keep informed of our SMP system news. This email list is also a forum for Questions and Answers.
Anyone subscribed to the smp-hpc list is able to edit this wiki using your list email address and password. If you cannot remember your list password, go to http://lists.science.uq.edu.au/mailman/options/smp-hpc, enter your email address at the top, and click the 'Password reminder' button at the bottom, and your list password will be emailed to you.
Getting Started
To start using the SMP cluster:
- Request a
getafixcluster account from the ITS support desk attn: ITS Research Infrastructure. If you are a student, then your research project supervisor should apply on your behalf. - Read the getafix information for CPU & GPU computing.
- Read the Slurm guide for information on how to use the SLURM Resource Manager (and some additional notes for converting SGE to slurm or Torque to SGE to slurm).
- getafix system usage/stats are viewable via
http://faculty-cluster.hpc.net.uq.edu.au/ganglia/
More information
See the left-hand side bar for other links, uncluding WhyHPC? for a brief introduction to high performance computing, and UQ Resources to get an overview of computing resources at UQ. The Howto section contains guides for setting up and running jobs on the cluster. Guides for specific software installed on the cluster are in the Software section.
See the FAQ for other Frequently Asked Questions.
QCIF has a youtube channel with many introductory videos on using HPC systems.
Acknowledgments
Please add into any publications:
Numerical simulations were performed on The University of Queensland's School of Mathematics and Physics Core Computing Facility "getafix" (optionally: with thanks to Dr. L. Elliott and I. Mortimer for computing support).
CCF@SMP Webpages Changelog:
* January 2021: Site was converted to a wiki. For recent changes to the wiki, see the History and Recent Changes links at the bottom of each page. For older changes, see the archived site.