Grad / SweGrid User Guide

This is the user guide to Grad, the Swegrid cluster at UPPMAX.

The login node is grad.uppmax.uu.se

All nodes are running Scientific Linux 5.4.

All heavy usage of Grad must go through the queuing system by submitting SGE jobs or by using the grid interface

 

Installed software

Se the available software user guide

for details about installed software.

 

Accounts and log in

All access to this system is via secure shell interactive login to the login node, using the domain name grad.uppmax.uu.se.

   ssh -X user@grad.uppmax.uu.se

To get a user account you must register at the UPPMAX user account application page..

For questions concerning accounts and access to Grad, please contact UPPMAX support

Using the batch system

To allow a fair and better usage of the system we use a resource manager to coordinate user demands. We use the Grid Engine software.

User guide for the Grid Engine batch system

 

File storage and disk space

At UPPMAX we have a few different kinds of storage areas for files, see File Storage User Guide

for more information and recommended use.

 

Message Passing using MPI

There is currently only one mpi implementation installed. This is openMPI. The module to use are called openmpi. For more information about this implementation of MPI, see http://www.open-mpi.org