Over the past year CQLS moved HPC users to the new Wildwood HPC. This new HPC included significant upgrades to management servers, operating systems, queuing software (SLURM), ONID authentication, a larger all-access queue (all.q), and custom job submission software (hpcman). Since this transition the CQLS has been working with the other HPC groups on campus to create a consolidated campus-wide HPC and provide unified HPC experience to users, and accessible research computing across OSU.
The College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS) has completed consolidation of users and HPC resources into the Wildwood HPC. The CQLS and CEOAS HPC clusters now share login and management servers, storage, and all.q. The CQLS is currently working with Advanced Research Computing Services (ARCS) and the College of Engineering (COE) to join their HPC clusters with the Wildwood HPC.
The Wildwood HPC has grown in computing capacity and storage. There are approximately 8000 CPUs and 65 GPUs available on the all.q and in priority queues. The all-access queue, all.q, has 480 CPUs and also has an available GPU queue and continues to grow as we intake more users. The Wildwood HPC has 12.3PB of network-attached storage.
The CQLS has also rebuilt the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Teaching Facility (ACTF), an HPC teaching cluster. The ACTF HPC mimics the Wildwood HPC but has special class-specific resources and areas for students and instructors to work together. Instructors are able to teach linux-based programming and analysis classes and access student directories to check assignments. Please contact us if you are interested in utilizing this resource.
HPC upgrades and changes have necessitated downtimes of servers and storage and we appreciate user’s patience and flexibility for as we continue to make improvements. OSU is decommissioning the Kerr Administration server room where the Wildwood storage servers reside. We are helping the University to vacate the Kerr server room by moving Wildwood HPC storage to a new location in Burt Hall.
For more information about the Wildwood HPC cluster and how to connect, see the documentation webpage, the account request form, or contact CQLS HPC support: cqls-support@cqls.oregonstate.edu
