Welcome to the Cluster Access Portal, providing access control for CS Department hosted clusters. The clusters below each have different access parameters, so may not be available to all users. Please see the Access section under each cluster for details.
The CS Department manages a Slurm cluster, known as neuronic, funded by the Dean for Research and the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), for members of SEAS who need a high performance computing (HPC) cluster environment, and FP32 GPUs in particular, in order to perform their research.
The neuronic cluster is composed of 33 identical nodes, and occupies five racks in the CS section of the University Data Center. Each node runs Linux and one of the nodes is designated the login node. All other servers are compute nodes.
Each neuronic cluster node is a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR670 V2 containing:
This portal site manages access to the cluster. Members of the SEAS Faculty should be able to login to this site and add access for themselves and their sponsored users. After adding access through this portal, it may take up to 30 minutes for the new access to be propagated. If you have never used a Slurm cluster before, or even if you have, we suggest reading through the Help Pages on this site to familiarize yourself with the environment of this cluster.
The CS Department cluster, known as ionic, is funded by the CS Department and CS Department faculty. It consists of several node types, and includes several sub-clusters (partitions) belonging to faculty research groups. For details on the ionic cluster, please refer to the CS Guide.
Access to the ionic cluster, as well as to its sub-clusters (partitions) is managed through this portal site. For the main cluster/partition, anyone with a Regular CS Account should be able to sponsor their own access. You MUST have a CS Department Account in order to acquire access to ionic. If you do not have a CS Department Account, even if you are able to add access through this portal, you will not be able to access or use the cluster.
Access to the sub-clusters (partitions) belonging to faculty research groups is also managed through this portal, but requires sponsorship by the controlling faculty for each sub-cluster. Individuals may request access to these clusters, but must reach out to the faculty sponsors of the clusters to login and approve the access. Alternatively, faculty sponsors may manually add their sponsored users through this portal.
After adding access through this portal, it may take up to 30 minutes for the new access to be propagated.
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