automatic ssh ram disk creation and loading

because you are new to SciNet or belong to a group whose primary PI does not have an allocation as granted in the annual Alliance (formerly Compute Canada) RAC), go to the opt-in page on the CCDB site. If you have an active Alliance account but you do not have access to Niagara yet (e.g. Note: Documentation about the 'GPU expansion to Niagara' called 'Mist' can be found on its own page.Īccess to Niagara is not enabled automatically for everyone with an account with the Digital Reseach Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada), but anyone with an active Alliance account can get their access enabled. More detailed hardware characteristics of the Niagara supercomputer can be found on this page. The compute nodes are accessed through a queueing system that allows jobs with a minimum of 15 minutes and a maximum of 24 hours and favours large jobs. Being designed for large parallel workloads, it has a fast interconnect consisting of EDR InfiniBand in a Dragonfly+ topology with Adaptive Routing. It was the 53rd fastest supercomputer on the TOP500 list of June 2018, and is at number 113 on the current list (June 2021).Įach node of the cluster has 188 GiB / 202 GB RAM per node (at least 4 GiB/core for user jobs and roughly 170 GiB/node at most).

The peak performance of the cluster is about 3.6 PFlops (6.25 PFlops theoretical). The Niagara cluster is a large cluster of 2,024 Lenovo SD530 servers each with 40 Intel 'Skylake' cores at 2.4 GHz (1548 nodes) or 40 Intel 'CascadeLake' cores at 2.5 GHz (476 nodes).

Automatic ssh ram disk creation and loading