Gibbs

Description

Gibbs is equipped with the following software/hardware:

• 6 nodes with 2 x CPU Intel Xeon Octa Core (16 cores), 128 GB of RAM, 2 x 300 GB HD SAS (10 krpm), OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3
• 4 nodes with 1 x CPU Intel Xeon 10 Core with hyperthreading (20 cores), 128 GB of RAM, 2 x 300 GB HD SAS (10 krpm), OS Scientific Linux release 6.6

for a total of 10 nodes, 176 cores.

Access

• Linux and Mac OS users can login within the DiSC internet connection using a terminal with the command:

ssh account@192.168.9.15

or from outside the Department using

ssh -P 50000 account@147.162.63.10

where "account" is the user's account.

• Windows users can use an interface program to the ssh service, e.g. Putty.

Queues

The queue manager is PBS and the following queues are available:

• gibbs: max nodes 4, max walltime 2 weeks (336 hours)

Example PBS file

A typical PBS input file script will be as follow (see the Support page for more help):

#!/bin/sh --login
#PBS -N jobname
#PBS -A account
#PBS -q gibbs
#PBS -l nodes=n
#PBS -w time in hh:mm:ss format

commands to execute

where the parts in italic should be changed as appropriate.