Partitions on system Lise

Compute system Lise at NHR@ZIB contains different Compute partitions for CPUs and GPUs. Your choice for the partition affects

Login nodes,
slurm partition (Compute partitions and Accounting), and
Software.

Login nodes

To login to system Lise, please

choose a login node associated to your Compute partitions and
use authentication via SSH Login.

Software and environment modules

The webpage Software gives you information about available software on the NHR systems.

NHR provides a number of compilers and software packages for parallel computing and (serial) pre- and postprocessing:

Compilers: Intel, GNU
Libraries: NetCDF, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, BLAS, FFTW, ...
Debuggers: Allinea DDT, Roguewave TotalView...
Tools: octave, python, R ...
Visualisation: mostly tools to investigate gridded data sets from earth-system modelling
Application software: mostly for engineering and chemistry (molecular dynamics)

Environment Modules are used to manage the access to software/libraries. The module command offers the following functionality.

Show lists of available software
Enables access to software in different versions

Example: Show the currently available software and access the Intel compiles

blogin1:~ $ module avail
...
blogin1:~ $ module load intel
Module for Intel Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition (version 2019 Update 5) loaded.
blogin1:~ $ module list
Currently Loaded Modulefiles:
 1) sw.skl   2) slurm   3) HLRNenv   4) intel/19.0.5(default)

To avoid conflicts between different compilers and compiler versions, builds of most important libraries are provided for all compilers and major release numbers.

File systems

Each complex has the following file systems available. More information about Quota, usage, and best pratices are available on System Quota. Hints for data transfer are given here.

Home file system containing $HOME directories /home/${USER}/
Scratch parallel file system with 20 PiByte capacity containing
- $WORK directories /scratch/usr/${USER}/
- project data directories /scratch/projects/<projectID>/ (not yet available)
Tape archive (accessible on the login nodes, only)