Sgees018

High Performance cluster sgees018.geo.vuw.ac.nz#

  • 192 core AMD EPYC 9454 @3.8 GHz
  • GPU: NVIDIA A2 (NVIDIA Corporation GA107GL [A2 / A16])
  • 1024 GiB Memory
  • Fast network (10/25 Gbit interface)
  • Virtually unlimited ITS storage

Operating system#

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Access#

From the university network just use full-qualified host name for access the server:

ssh -Y username@sgees018.geo.vuw.ac.nz

Or run X2Go client for starting remote XFCE session on the server.

Multi-Core Usage notes#

Matlab has multiprocessor and multithread ability. To check if it’s true type in Matlab command window: maxNumCompThreads

Further reading about Matlab multicore:

Performance and processes monitoring#

Start another shell at sgees018 (screen, tmux, another SSH session) and monitor load and performance with htop (in htop be aware of large number of CPU cores)