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:
- http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/4370
- http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/13775-multicore-parallel-processing-on-multiple-cores
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3296136/matlab-and-using-multiple-cores-to-run-calculations
- http://www.mathworks.com/products/parallel-computing/builtin-parallel-support.html
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)