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- access to MPI based parallel programs
- access to larger amounts of memory than 32bit computers offer
- access to the large public domain of scientific computing programs
- access to multiple compilers
- assess to large amounts of storage
- access to batch processing for running numerous independent serial jobs
- access to 64bit versions of programs you may already have on your 32bit desktop
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The following programs provide thread based parallelism as well: Comsol, Matlab
The Note, the default settings for Matlab are number of threads equals number of cores on a compute node. However it is up to you to specify in slurm what is needed.
When does 64bit computing matter?
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See attachment for Intel white paper introduction pdf document.
GPU computing and CUDA resources
There are three nVidia GPU types available:
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Where is the deviceQuery command? And how to find out more device info?
> which deviceQuery > srun --pty --x11=first -p gpu deviceQuery > srun --pty --x11=first -p gpu nvidia-smi -h |
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How does one make a gpu batch job?
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