Compute: Voltar

voltar.nic.uoregon.edu

Pascal / Volta-class GPU testbed system. Has a local license for a GPU-accelerating PGI compiler.

Voltar runs the DCV remote high performance desktop server. To utilize this, while SSHed into Voltar, use

user$ dcv help # show all commands
user$ dcv list-sessions
user$ dcv create-session FOO
user$ dcv close-session FOO

Then, take your browser to https://voltar.nic.uoregon.edu:8442/#FOO and you will be able to log into to a CentOS desktop using your credentials, in your browser.

Please do not leave sessions open forever when you are done. Our license for sessions is not unlimited!

Basics

Hardware

• 2 x 16c Xeon Gold 6226R @ 2.9GHz (Cascade Lake)
• 256GB DDR4-2933
• 1TB local HDD + NFS to Storage (40TB)
• Network:
  • 10GbE to public & storage networks
  • EDR Infiniband
• 1 x V100 (PciE), 16GB HBM, 5120 cores
• 1 x P100 (PciE), 16GM HBM, 3584 cores

Software

• CentOS 7.8.2003
• Kernel 3.10.0-1127
• nvidia kernel driver 450.51.06
• PGI accelerating compiler
• DCV remote accelerated desktop