This document details how to use the ECEN Olympus cluster and how to use it to remotely access Linux software used in academic Linux labs and for research.
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What is the Olympus Cluster
The Olympus cluster consists of the login node (olympus.ece.tamu.edu), six eight non-GPU compute nodes and five GPU compute nodes. The cluster has software that ensures users receive the resources needed for their labs and research by distributing users' jobs across the compute nodes based on their course the user’s requirements. There is limited software installed on the Olympus head node.
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Five Nodes - Poweredge 730XD - dual Xeon E5-2650 v3
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Three of the GPU nodes have dual Xeon Gold 6130 with 392GB RAM and four Nvidia V100 GPUs
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Two of the GPU nodes have dual Xeon Gold 6326 with 256GB RAM and four Nvidia A100 GPUs
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- 20 cores (40 with HT) with 256GB RAM
100 core total
Three Nodes - Poweredge R6525- Dual AMD EPYC 7443 - 48 cores (96 with HT) with 256GB RAM
144 core total
Three Nodes - Poweredge C4140 - Dual Xeon Gold 6130 - 32 cores (64 with HT) with 196GB RAM, 4 Tesla V100’s per node
96 core and 12 Nvidia V100 total
Two Nodes - PowerEdge R750xa - Dual Xeon Gold 6326 - 32 cores (64 with HT) with 256GB RAM, 4 Ampere A100’s per node
64 core and 8 Nvidia A100 total
Cluster Configuration and Usage Limitations
To assure resources are available to all students, the following limitations are enforced. Nodes are grouped into partitions.
Non-GPU limitations:
Undergraduate users (academic)
are allowed two simultaneous interactive sessions on the non-GPU compute nodes. Users can log in to Olympus using ssh with two different sessions and run the proper
load-ecen-###command in each ssh session.Each interactive session is limited to a maximum of 12 hours.
Graduate Users (academic)
are allowed to use up to eight cores on the non-GPU compute nodes. Users can log in to Olympus using ssh with four different sessions and run the proper
load-ecen-###command in each ssh session.Each interactive session is limited to a maximum of 12 hours.
Research Users
are allowed to use up to 10 cores on the non-GPU compute nodes.
Each job is limited to a maximum of 48 hours
GPU Limitations
Undergraduate Users
are limited to using 8 cpu cores and 1 gpu
Graduate/ Research Users
are limited to using a total of 32 cpu cores and 4 gpus
How to Use the Cluster
Requirements to Login to Olympus.
You will need an ssh/xwindows client on your computer.
On windows systems, install MobaXTerm personal edition.
Putty and XMing are also an option for Windows users.
On Macintosh install the XQuartz software. Detailed instructions for accessing Olympus from off campus can be found here:
Graphical Applications on the Olympus Cluster and ECEN Interactive Machines from Off-Campus
How go login to Olympus
Open MobaXTerm on windows or the terminal program on Mac
ssh to
olympus.ece.tamu.edu, i.e.ssh -Y netid@olympus.ece.tamu.edu(replace netid with your NetID)Log in using your NetID password
For non-gpu academic users, you will need to connect to an available compute node. Enter the proper
load-ecen-###command at the prompt and hit return. The command that you will run depends on which course you are taking. The following are valid commands:load-ecen-248load-ecen-350load-ecen-403load-ecen-425load-ecen-449load-ecen-454load-ecen-468load-ecen-474load-ecen-475load-ecen-620load-ecen-625load-ecen-651load-ecen-655load-ecen-676load-ecen-680
load-ecen-704load-ecen-714load-ecen-720
load-ecen-749
Source the same file that you use in the Zachry Linux Labs.
For CPU research users the following interactive load commands are available.
load-2core - creates a 2 core job on a cpu node
load-4core - creates a 4 core job on a cpu node
For GPU users see instructions below on setting up containers using Singularity. Singularity is similar to Docker and allow you to create custom environments for your gpu jobs. These environments include using different versions of Linux inside the container.
Instructions for Using Singularity Containers for GPU and specialty programs on Olympus
Singularity Containers on Olympus GPU Nodes
Once you have set up your environment and debugged your environment/programs in the interactive gpu session, you can submit a job to run in batch mode.
How to start a non-interactive (batch)
These jobs run in the background on the cluster and do not require an active terminal session once submitted.
The GPU queue has the following limitations:
Maximum of 8 CPU cores per job
Maximum of 1 GPU per job
Maximum of 1 Job running per user. You can queue multiple jobs in the system.
Maximum runtime of 36 hours per job
Jobs are submitted using a script file. An example script file is located at:
/mnt/lab_files/ECEN403-404/submit-gpu.sh
This file has comment lines detailing what each command does. Copy this file to your home directory and update it to match your virtual environment and program. Once this has been done, submit the script to the scheduler using the command: sbatch name_of_shell_file.sh. If you did not change the name of the script file, the command would be sbatch submit-gpu.sh. You can check the status of your job using the command qstat or squeue.
You can observe the progress of your job by checking the log files that are generated. These files are updated as your program runs. The following partitions are configured.
CPU: Eight nodes - Five nodes have academic priority (academic jobs will run on these nodes first)
CPU-RESEARCH: Three nodes - research jobs will run on these nodes - requires PI approval for access
GPU: Five nodes for projects and research - requires PI/Faculty approval for access
Resource allocation is set using Quality of Service groups (qos) in slurm.
QOS name | Hardware Limits | Default Time Limits | Hard Time Limit | Partition |
olympus-academic | 6 cpu cores | 12 hours | 12 hours | academic |
olympus-cpu-research | 144 cpu cores | 48 hours | 7 days | cpu-research |
olympus-ugrad-gpu | 8 cpu, 1gpu | 36 hours | 36 hours | gpu-research |
olympus-research-gpu-sh | 16 cpu 2gpu | 12 hours | 12 hours | gpu-research |
olympus-research-gpu | 32 cpu, 4gpu | 4 days | 4 days | gpu-research |
olympus-research-gpu2 | 160 cpu 20 gpu | 7 days | 14 days | gpu-research |
QOS Uses –
olympus-academic – access to acadmic partition for courses with Linux requirements.
olympus-cpu-research – access to cpu-research partition
olympus-ugrad-gpu – undergraduate access to gpu-research partition
olympus-research-gpu – access to the gpu-research partition
olympus-research-gpu-sh – interactive job access to gpu-research partition
olympus-research2 -unlimited access to gpu-research partition, special case use