VISUALIZATION SERVERS

SERC has installed two high end visualizations servers for pre and post data processing needs of the HPC users. These machines are specifically meant to help users process data that would potentially be used or generated on the SahasraT supercomputer. The machines have high RAM with 16 cores to enable this. These systems also mount the /mnt/lustre parallel file system that is available only on SahasraT for easy data access. Most commonly used software for data processing have been made available on these systems. Since the machines have multi-core processing capabilities, users can also run small (upto 8-16 cores) parallel runs for data processing.
HARDWARE OVERVIEW  

  • Dual 3rd generation AMD EPYC processor 7413 ( 24 cores, 48 Threads, 2.65GHz, 3.60 GHz max Boost frequency, 128MB L3 Cache ).
  • 16 x 64GB [1 TB] DDR4 ECC registered 3200 MHz memory  module.
  • 2 x 2 TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7,200 RPM 3.5H enterprise edition hard disk drive
  • 1 x Nividia RTX A6000 3D, OpenGL GPU Adapter with 48 GB GPU memory
  • 32 non-touch IPS LED backlight 3840×2160 Resolution Monitor
SYSTEM SOFTWARE/ LIBRARIES 

  • Operating System: Red Hat Linux
  • Intel Compiler Suite
  • Intel Compiler(liscence will be provided by IISC): /opt/intel/oneapi/modulefiles/compiler/2023.1.0
  • nvhpc/23.7
  • PGI Compilers as part of NVHPC: nvhpc-byo-compiler/23.7  nvhpc-hpcx-cuda11/23.7  nvhpc-hpcx-cuda12/23.7  nvhpc-hpcx/23.7  nvhpc-nompi/23.7
  • MPI Implementation – Open MPI
  • SOFTWARES / PACKAGES INSTALLED
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Accessing the system

This machine is accessible only for param-pravega users using ssh from inside IISc network. The details are as follows:

      • ssh computational_id@vs1.serc.iisc.ernet.in
      • ssh computational_id@vs2.serc.iisc.ernet.in
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Helpdesk

For any queries, raise a ticket in the helpdesk or please contact System Administrator, #103,SERC.