Hungabee QuickStart Guide
About this QuickStart Guide
This QuickStart guide gives a brief overview of the WestGrid Hungabee facility, highlighting some of the features that distinguish it from other WestGrid resources. It is intended to be read by new WestGrid account holders and by current users considering whether to move to the Hungabee system. For more detailed information about the Hungabee hardware and performance characteristics, available software, usage policies and how to log in and run jobs, follow the links given below.
Introduction
The Hungabee cluster is intended for applications that can take advantage of its large memory.
As of this writing the machine is not in full production. If you think you have a suitable application and would like to participate in beta testing of this facility, please contact us at support@westgrid.ca .
Here is a picture of Hungabee during installation in December 2011 (click for a larger image in a new window).
Request for access
Hungabee is not yet available for general use. See above for more information.
Hardware
Processors
Hungabee has 2048 cores sharing 16 TB of RAM in a single system image.
Interconnect
Information not yet available.
Storage
Information not yet available.
Software
See the main WestGrid software page for tables showing the installed application software on Hungabee and other WestGrid systems, as well as information about the operating system, compilers, and mathematical and graphical libraries.
Please write to WestGrid support if there is additional software that you would like installed.
Using Hungabee
Getting started
As noted above, Hungabee is not yet available for general use. When it becomes available, log in to Hungabee by connecting to the host name hungabee.westgrid.ca using an ssh (secure shell) client. For more information about connecting and setting up your environment, see the QuickStart Guide for New Users.
Batch job policies
As on other WestGrid systems batch jobs are handled by a combination of TORQUE and Moab software. For more information about submitting jobs, see Running Jobs.
The following table will be filled in with batch job limits as the policies for using the system are developed.
| Resource |
Policy or limit |
| Maximum walltime, but, see below for other comments related to walltime. | ? hours |
| Suggested maximum memory resource request, mem. | ? GB |
| Maximum number of running jobs for a single user | ? |
| Maximum cores (sum for all jobs) for a single user | ? |
| Maximum jobs in Idle queue | ? |
Interactive jobs
Policies to be determined.
Updated 2011-12-14.
