[NLPL Task Force (A)] Fwd: saga pilot testing

[Stephan Oepen]

dear all,

as i mentioned in our group meeting earlier this week, NLPL has been
invited to help break-in the Abel successor; see below.  essentially,
they are looking for a not too small and not too large group of
dedicated people who are prepared to put subtantial load on the new
system between early june and late august.  there will be 32 modern
gpus in total on the initial Saga installation, and during the trial
period there should be no shortage of cpu cycles.

i understand andrey, eivind, jeremy, and vinit might be interested?
there is an on-line registration form below, and ideally we should
have declared our intent earlier this week.  the form is still open,
and i have already registered a blanket statement of interest for
NLPL.  so, if you expect you will have things to compute (and might
want to put those gpus to use :-), please (a) fill in the form below
quickly, and (b) please mention in one of the free-text fields that
you would like to have access to the 'NLPL community directory'.

joakim, please feel free to forward to doctoral students at uppsala
(from current Abel users) for which this might be interesting.

best wishes,


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jørn Aslak Amundsen <jorn.amundsen at uninett.no>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:55 AM
Subject: saga pilot testing
To:


Dear Abel project administrator,

Abel is about to be replaced with the new Saga machine during the
autumn of this year.

All projects on Abel hence need to be moved, mainly to the new Saga
machine. Although Saga has newer hardware and software, it provides an
architecture very similar to Abel: The same CPU architecture (Intel
CPUs), 8 GPU nodes (NVIDIA Pascal), same OS (CentOS), same file system
(BeeGFS) and same queueing system (Slurm). For further detail on Saga,
please refer to
https://www.sigma2.no/content/new-supercomputer-named-saga.

We would like to invite your project to pilot testing (pre-production)
on Saga. Pilot testing is targeted for the weeks 24 to 34, or 11 June
- 23 August 2019. It is important to us for contractual reasons that
we do a significant share of the pilot testing before week 29. Hence
please prioritize weeks 24-28 if possible. You will receive
information about when it is possible to log in for pilot testing in
due time. Your project will not be charged for the CPU and/or GPU
resources consumed during pilot testing.

To participate on pilot testing, a user must be available to run test
jobs for a minimum of three weeks during weeks 24-34. Please
distribute this link

    https://response.questback.com/uninett/sagapilottesting

to all of your participating users. Please do only send the link to
registered users on your project. The link will send you to a short
questionnaire, to gather necessary information for us to support the
pilot testing. Notice your availability information will not be
disclosed.


We would highly appreciate if you could inform us about your decision
to participate or not to participate in Saga pilot testing no later
than 26 March 2019. Please reply to sigma at uninett.no.


Yours Sincerely --Jørn Amundsen, UNINETT Sigma2 AS