What is the CRUG Cluster?
One of the goals of Carleton’s Computational Research Users Group is to create a shared, powerful, and expandable computation cluster that is usable by as many of our users as possible and funded by grants and faculty startup funds. Our users include faculty and students from all departments, and their needs are diverse.
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The system is designed to take advantage of the Slurm workload manager. We expect that the majority of the jobs will take advantage of multiple cores through some type of parallel processing. 95% of our needs seem to be embarrassingly parallel. Users “ssh” into command.dmz.carleton.edu and submit Slurm jobs through the linux command line. An example of using Slurm can found at https://wiki.carleton.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=57837534. Some useful Slurm commands can be found at https://wiki.carleton.edu/display/carl/Useful+Slurm+commands.
If you want a CRUG account or are new to this, please contact our technical staff Mike Tie for help.
What if I have a job that only needs one core or if I want to run a graphical application?
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What if I want to run a Windows application, some other version of linuxLinux, or Mac OSX?
We can spin up small virtual machines for unique version of linux Linux or for windows apps; please contact one of our technical staff. Unfortunately, Mac OSX is not supported in a virtual environment?
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