Latest News – PlaFRIM

Energy Management

Corentin Mercier’s talk on how to reduce the carbon footprint of the cluster covers the following topics
> The energy consumption of the cluster
> Solutions to reduce it
> The new system to shut down idle nodes and its user manual
> Estimations of the energy saved thanks to the new system
> What users can do to help

The slides are available at https://www.plafrim.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022_09_13_mercier_powersave.pdf

The internship report is available at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03770831

Closure of PlaFRIM from June 10th to 13th 2022

Dear all,

In order to proceed with the annual total electric shutdown of the building scheduled on June 11th, we have to shut down the PlaFRIM infrastructure from June 10th during the afternoon.
The restart is scheduled on Monday June 13th during the day. We will take advantage of this stop to update SLURM to the latest available stable version.
Thank you for your understanding.

The PlaFRIM team

User documentation migration

The user documentation that was previously on this website (hardware, software, FAQ, etc) is being migrated to the new documentation website https://plafrim-users.gitlabpages.inria.fr/doc/

Closure of PlaFRIM from April 23 to 26, 2021

In order to proceed with the annual total electric shutdown of the building scheduled for 24 april, we have to shut down the PlaFRIM infrastructure from 23 april during the afternoon.
A normal situation is scheduled on Monday 26 april during the morning.
Thank you for your understanding.

Présentation de PlaFRIM jeudi 4 mars 2021 de 10h00 à 12h00

En visio : https://webconf.u-bordeaux.fr/b/nat-z6j-urw

Programme :

– Présentation générale

– Présentation technique

– Prise en main de SLURM et des modules

– Prise en main de GUIX

Closure of PlaFRIM on February 10th from 12pm to 14pm

In order to update the network infrastructure, we have to shutdown the PlaFRIM infrastructure on February 10th from 12pm to 14pm.
All the jobs in progress at the time of the shutdown will be deleted.

Thank you for your understanding.

New zonda and sirocco nodes available

New compute nodes are now available (see https://www.plafrim.fr/hardware-documentation/):

zonda[07-21]: 2 * AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core Processor and 256 GB RAM
sirocco21: 2 * AMD EPYC 7402 24-Core Processor and 2 GPU Nvidia Ampere A100 and 512 Go RAM

To reserve them, use the constraints “zonda” or “a100”.

These machines have just been integrated, do not hesitate to contact us if you see improvements to be made or need further information.

3 K40M GPU cards on sirocco[03-04] nodes instead of 4 initially

Just a message to inform you that on sirocco[03-04] nodes, only 3 K40M GPU cards are now available instead of 4 initially because of a hardware problem on these nodes.

We are sorry for this inconvenience.

New nodes available

New compute nodes are now available (see https://www.plafrim.fr/hardware-documentation/):

bora [041-044] : 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6240 CPU and 192 GB RAM (identical to bora[001-040])
zonda [01-06] : 2 * AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core Processor and 256 GB RAM
sirocco [18-20] : 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5218R Processor and 2 Nvidia Quadro RTX8000 GPUs and 192 GB RAM

To reserve them, use the constraints “bora”, “zonda” or “rtx8000”.

These machines have just been integrated, do not hesitate to contact us if you see improvements to be made or need further information.

Updated FAQ on storage spaces

The FAQ has been updated to describe all storage spaces available on PlaFRIM and the quota command to display their usage and limits.