Introduction
This document walks you through the process of accessing and using Microway's Test Drive Cluster. This cluster is an HPC resource which we make available for benchmarking and development projects.
Available Resources
Each Compute Node in the Test Drive Cluster contains:
Latest-generation multicore CPUs:
Dual 16-core 2.8GHz Intel Xeon 6242 CPUs
Dual 8-core, 16-core, 32-core, and 64-core AMD EPYC "Rome" CPUs
256GB to 768GB DDR4 Memory
100Gbps EDR and 200Gbps HDR InfiniBand interconnects
Additionally, users may access the following GPU compute accelerators:
NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCI-E 16GB GPU
NVIDIA Tesla V100S PCI-E 32GB GPU
NVIDIA A100 PCI-E 40GB GPUs with NVLink pairs (coming soon)
NVIDIA DGX A100 (coming soon)
Quick Start
In brief, here are the steps to running on the Test Drive Cluster: 1. Request an account on the cluster 2. Log into the cluster via encrypted connection 3. Upload your code and input data to the cluster 4. Compile your code (if necessary) 5. Run your code on a Compute Node
This manual walks you through the process.
Assumptions and Disclaimers
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