Workstations & Thin Clients

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1 1 Workstations & Thin Clients

2 Overview Why use a BioHPC computer? System Specs Network requirements OS Tour Running Code Locally Submitting Jobs to the Cluster Run Graphical Jobs on the Cluster Use Windows on a BioHPC system 2

3 Why use a BioHPC system? They run the same environment as the cluster RHEL6 Bash, sbatch, and modules are preconfigured It s easier to work with large data sets Drag-and-Drop files in the GUI You don t have to use an FTP client or the web interface 3

4 Workstations Dell Optiplex T5810 Series 6 Core Processor 16GB RAM Nvidia GPU $2400 4

5 Thin Clients Intel NUC Quad Core Processor 16GB RAM $700 5

6 Comparison 10GB Network Card 1TB HDD Hardware Rendering 1GB Network Connection 256GB SSD Software Rendering Test CUDA on the Nvidia GPU 6

7 Network Requirements All BioHPC systems require a 10GB network connection. Price varies for port installation or activation. Telecom requests can be placed in PeopleSoft. Ask your Administrative Assistants for assistance. IP reservation requests can be placed here: Make sure you put in the notes that you need a 10GB IP address! 7

8 GUI Interface GUI desktop similar to Windows. Your roaming profile maintains your files and settings on all BioHPC workstations. 8

9 Basic Settings You must set the proxy configuration in your profile to access the Internet outside of the UTSW firewall. System>Preferences>Proxy Setting Prevent folders from opening in separate windows Edit > Preferences > Click on the Behavior tab and check Always open in browser windows 9

10 Basic Settings Create Directory Shortcuts Create bookmarks to quickly access the project and work folders. 10

11 Keyboard Shortcuts Print screen Prt Sc Launch terminal Disabled by default but you can change to Ctrl+T Paste within terminal Ctrl+Shift+V You can change shortcuts under System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts 11

12 System Utilities Disk Usage Analyzer Applications > System Tools > Disk Usage Analyzer Shows the status of your storage quotas. Remember to empty the trash if you need space. System Monitor Applications > System Tools > System Monitor The Resources tab shows the load on the CPU and memory. This is useful for monitoring system resources when testing code on a workstation. 12

13 Modules Modules are used to deploy multiple versions of different software tools. See what modules are available $ module avail View loaded modules $ module list Load a module $ module load <name> Remove a module $ module rm <name> 13

14 Applications You can install binaries in your home2 directory. For example:./configure prefix=/home2/username/folder You can not install RPM packages, but you can to request an installation. 14

15 Run a Job Locally Workstations and thin clients come with Bash and SBGrid preconfigured to test scripts before submitting them to the cluster. Run a script on a workstation with bash Check the Output Folder 15

16 Submit a Job to the Cluster Run sbatch Check the queue with the squeue command Check the output folder 16

17 Remote GUI and GPU Run a Graphical User Interface on a single HPC cluster node. $ remotegui Connect to the GUI session with the VNC client. $ cat remotegui.txt Run a GUI session that utilizes one of the Nvidia GPUs. Requires SSH. $ remotegpu 17

18 Virtual Machines The BioHPC VirtualBox Image Manager let s you copy VMs to your local machine. Workstations have a 384GB limit and Thin Clients have a 50GB limit. 18

19 Windows 2013 Mount BioHPC Storage 19

20 Increase Virtual Drive Increase the Size of the Drive $ VBoxManage modifyhd <absolute path to file> --resize <size in MB> Example I have a 40GB drive that I want to be 45GB the command would be. $ VBoxManage modifyhd <absolute path including the name and extension> -- resize You can not shrink a guest drive with VirtualBox due to the inherent danger of loosing data or making the guest non-bootable. 20

21 Limitations Downtime Downtime for system upgrades will be announced two weeks in advance. You will not be able to login to workstations or thin clients. Incompatible Applications Power OpenMPI, RDMA, GPU Direct will only work on the cluster Connect to Nucleus with SSH to submit these jobs. Leave BioHPC systems powered on at all times, unless instructed otherwise. 21

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