ABP workstations

Workstations hosted at CERN

The following workstations are avaiable for development and production. - Access is granted based on the use case. - For further information and to get access please contact abp.computing[AT]cern.ch.

Host name	CPU	RAM	GPU
pcbe-abp-gpu001	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core	128 GB	4x Titan V
pcbe-abp-hpc001	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core	256 GB	GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
pcbe-abp-hpc002	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core	256 GB	GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
liupsgpu	2x Intel Xeon E5-2630 6-core	256 GB	3x Tesla C2075

When possible the CERN batch system (HTCondor) should be used for production studies while these workstation should be used for special cases (e.g. development, performance benchmarking, computations requiring very large amount of memory etc.).

For administrators

• A user can change the password by simply typing

  passwd
  

• An administrator can add a user by:

  sudo adduser username
  

• An administrator can change the password for a user by typing:

  sudo passwd username
  

• An administrator can give sudo rights to an user by typing:

  usermod -aG sudo username
  

Workstations hosted at INFN-CNAF

GPUs are available also at CNAF (for users having a CNAF HPC account - more info available here). You can launch GPU jobs interactively with the following steps:

1. Connect with SSH into the login server: bastion.cnaf.infn.it;
2. Connect wiht SSH to the node that has the 4x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs: hpc-201-11-35;
3. Enable newer versions of gcc, cmake etc. with scl enable devtoolset-7 bash