HPE Hawk

Warning: HAWK is currently in the set up phase. For more details about the timing please see the Hawk installation schedule.

Warning: Please have in mind that the system is currently under construction. Hence, modifications might occur and the observed performance can vary.

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Introduction Access Hardware and Architecture

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Cluster Documentation Batch System Module Environment Home directories as well as workspaces are handled in the same way as on Hazel Hen, so please cf. Storage Description regarding details. Compiler MPI Libraries Manuals

Programming / Utilities CAE Utilities MKL Fortran Interfaces FFTW library usage

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Module environment

cf. here

Compiler

cf. here

MPI

Tuned MPI: In order to use the MPI implementation provided by HPE, please load the Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) module mpt (not ABI-compatible to other MPI implementations) or hmpt (ABI-compatible to MPICH-derivatives).

User Guide: For detailed information cf. the HPE Message Passing Interface (MPI) User Guide.

Performance optimization: With respect to MPI performance optimization by means of tuning environment variables please cf. Tuning of MPT

Libraries

cf. here

Batch System

cf. here

Disk storage

Home directories as well as workspaces are handled in the same way as on Hazel Hen, so please cf. Storage Description regarding details.

Pre- and post processing

Within HLRS simulation environment special nodes for pre- and post processing tasks are available. Such nodes could be requested via the batch system (follow this link for more info). Available nodes are

  table... 
    4 nodes 2 TB Memory 2 Socket AMD ...x TB local storage   shared usage model
    1 Node  4 TB Memory 2 Socket AMD    x TB local storage   shared usage model

more specialized nodes e.g. graphics, vector, DataAnalytics, ... are available in the Vulcan cluster

Manuals

Processor:

• Software Optimization Guide for AMD EPYC Rome Processors
• Open-Source Register Reference for AMD EPYC Rome Processors
  (in particular describing available hardware performance counters)
• Software Optimization Guide for AMD Family 15h
  (although depicting an older family of AMD processors, the optimization approaches shown in this document are also applicable to the AMD EPYC Rome processor deployed in Hawk)

MPI:

• HPE Message Passing Interface (MPI) User Guide

Batch system:

• User's Guide
• Reference Guide (cf. this with respect to a complete list of environment variables exported by PBS)