Policies

Policies

Note

Please note that Shabyt was recently set up and is now open for general access. Software configurations are continually being updated. The policies described here are subject to change based on decisions made by the NU HPC Committee and actual system utilization.

Acceptable Use

The HPC system is a unique resource for NU researchers and the community. It has special characteristics, such as a large amount of RAM and the capability for massive parallelism. Due to its uniqueness and expense, its use is supervised by the HPC team to ensure fair and efficient utilization.

Users are responsible for complying with the general policies.

Job Submission

Jobs are submitted using the SLURM batch system. Below are examples of batch scripts for different types of jobs:

Serial Job

1. !/bin/bash
2. SBATCH --job-name=Test_Serial
3. SBATCH --nodes=1
4. SBATCH --ntasks=1
5. SBATCH --time=3-0:00:00
6. SBATCH --mem=5G
7. SBATCH --partition=CPU
8. SBATCH --output=stdout%j.out
9. SBATCH --error=stderr%j.out
10. SBATCH --mail-type=END,FAIL
11. SBATCH --mail-user=my.email@nu.edu.kz
12. SBATCH --get-user-env
13. SBATCH --no-requeue

pwd; hostname; date cp myfile1.dat myfile2.dat ./my_program myfile2.dat

SMP Job

1. !/bin/bash
2. SBATCH --job-name=Test_SMP
3. SBATCH --nodes=1
4. SBATCH --ntasks=1
5. SBATCH --cpus-per-task=8
6. SBATCH --time=3-0:00:00
7. SBATCH --mem=20G
8. SBATCH --partition=CPU
9. SBATCH --output=stdout%j.out
10. SBATCH --error=stderr%j.out
11. SBATCH --mail-type=END,FAIL
12. SBATCH --mail-user=my.email@nu.edu.kz
13. SBATCH --get-user-env
14. SBATCH --no-requeue

pwd; hostname; date export OMP_NUM_THREADS=8 ./my_smp_program myinput.inp > myoutput.out

Distributed Memory Parallelism (MPI) Job

1. !/bin/bash
2. SBATCH --job-name=Test_MPI
3. SBATCH --nodes=2
4. SBATCH --ntasks=256
5. SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=128
6. SBATCH --time=3-0:00:00
7. SBATCH --mem=250G
8. SBATCH --partition=CPU
9. SBATCH --exclusive
10. SBATCH --output=stdout%j.out
11. SBATCH --error=stderr%j.out
12. SBATCH --mail-type=END,FAIL
13. SBATCH --mail-user=my.email@nu.edu.kz
14. SBATCH --get-user-env
15. SBATCH --no-requeue

pwd; hostname; date NP=${SLURM_NTASKS} module load gcc/9.3.0 module load openmpi/gcc9/4.1.0 mpirun -np ${NP} ./my_mpi_program myinput.inp > myoutput.out