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12/13/20 16:56:11 (4 years ago)

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cbaribault

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Added section Alternatves to Cypress

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 == HPC at Tulane University ==
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 10th fastest among across all American universities.
 
+== Alternatives to Cypress ==
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+Please consider that your intended computational workload may not be suitable for running on Cypress due to either of the following.
+1. Your workload may not require the highly parallel capabilities of Cypress, 
+2. Your workload may require longer run times and/or a greater degree of your interaction directly with one or more compute nodes than that available on Cypress via SLURM. (See [[https://wiki.hpc.tulane.edu/trac/wiki/cypress/about#SLURMresourcemanager | SLURM]].)
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+If either of the above apply to your intended computational workload, then consider using one of the following alternatives.
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+==== Virtual Digital Infrastucture (VDI) Workstation ====
+You can request a virtual workstation with specific software, memory, and/or processing power. You can submit a request for VDI by visiting Tulane Service Now at:
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+https://tulane.service-now.com/
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+After logging in with your Tulane credentials, from the left side panel select "Service Catalog", then "Catalog". Then in the main panel under Infrastucture and Services, select "Virtual Desktop Request" and fill out the form.
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+==== Virtual Machine Server (VMS) ====
+You can submit a request for a VMS by visiting Tulane Service Now at:
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+https://tulane.service-now.com/
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+After logging in with your Tulane credentials, from the left side panel select "Service Catalog", then "Catalog". Then in the main panel under Infrastucture and Services, select first "View All Items", then "Virtual Desktop Request", and fill out the form.
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+== Cypress ==
 Cypress is located in the Tulane datacenter in Downtown New Orleans. It is composed of Dell
 state-of-the-art technology, using Intel Ivy Bridge CPU, Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor, and Lustre
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 storage, 480TB of which is dedicated to Hadoop with IEEL high performance storage for use by the Hadoop data analytics queue.
 
-== Cypress ==
 Follow the link below for more information on Cypress including it's hardware, how to obtain an account, and how to use Cypress.
 * [[cypress|Information on how to use Cypress]]
 
-== HPC Ranking as of November 2014 ==
+== Cypress Ranking as of November 2014 ==
 
 ==== Fastest Among Private American Universities ====