Cluster Computing
The UB-HPC (Academic) cluster consists of a heterogeneous set of nodes purchased over the years as grants were secured and funds became available. We p...
Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:30 PM
As of June 30, 2020: The academic (UB-HPC) compute cluster is broken up into several partitions (also known as "queues") that users can reque...
Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:27 PM
Please see this article for the most up-to-date info on file permissions There are several significant changes to user accounts and groups this summer. ...
Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 1:00 PM
The University at Buffalo offers an Advanced (Graduate) Certificate program in computational science. The Certificate recognizes a student's special tr...
Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:56 PM
The CCR clusters are accessed through a command line interface. Users must be able to navigate using Linux/UNIX commands. The CCR Cheat Sheet has...
Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:58 AM
Please watch this recording on how to use Slurm batch scheduler.) Batch computing involves users submitting jobs to a scheduler and resource manager ...
Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 2:48 PM
When users login to one of the CCR front end login nodes using vortex.ccr.buffalo.edu they are logged into one of a pool of login servers. The majority of ...
Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:21 PM
Checkpoint saves the processes of a running application to a file. Later the processes can be restarted from that file. Since the maximum time a job can r...
Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:24 PM
If you try to load a module and receive an error that it can't be found, be sure it does exist. Use the command: module avail [module_name] i.e. ...
Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 4:53 PM
Debugging Profiling Checkpointing Compilation of Serial Code Form for compiling a serial code: compiler -flags filename The available compilers ...
Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 4:17 PM