Superdome hardware¶
Superdome is a shared memory machine and consists of several nodes.
Login infrastructure¶
Direct login using SSH is possible to all login infrastructure without restrictions.
You can access Genius through: login-genius.hpc.kuleuven.be
This will loadbalance your connection to one of the 4 Genius login nodes. Two types of login nodes are available:
classic login nodes, i.e., terminal SSH access:
login1-tier2.hpc.kuleuven.be
login2-tier2.hpc.kuleuven.be
login3-tier2.hpc.kuleuven.be
login4-tier2.hpc.kuleuven.be
login node that provides a desktop environment that can be used for, e.g., visualization, see the NX clients section:
nx.hpc.kuleuven.be
Warning
This node should not be accessed using terminal SSH, it serves only as a gateway to the actual login nodes your NX sessions will be running on.
The NX login node will start a session on a login node that has a GPU, i.e., either
login3-tier2.hpc.kuleuven.be
login4-tier2.hpc.kuleuven.be
Hardware details¶
8 nodes
Xeon Gold 6132 CPUs@2.6 GHz (Skylake), 14 cores each
750 GB RAM
partition
superdome
So in total Superdome has 6TB RAM memory and additionally a local shared scratch file system of 6TB.
A quick start guide is available to get you started on submitting jobs to the Superdome.