Welcome to the Center for Scientific Computing
Nowadays, informatics and technology are an essential component in our society. From our bank to the
Internet of Things
, everything around us is built on top of computation, to a greater or lesser extent.
This is also a fact in academia, where conventional computing machines are not sufficient for the development
of such projects.
For this reason, there is an increasing need for computing centers, whose principal goal is to provide exceptional computation resources to researchers, to meet their project's demands. The Scientific Computing Center (CCC-UAM) is in charge of providing this service, aimed towards scientific disciplines (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Economics,...) of the UAM - CSIC Excelence Campus, Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC, as well as collaborating statewide with analogous centers via the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES).
Center for Scientific Computing. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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Power generator.
The Scientific Computing Center has installed a power generator that will prevent service outages in the event of long-duration power supply failures. This generator is supported by the two existing UPS systems, ensuring continuity and stability in the electricity supply.
Ethernet network upgrade.
Thanks to the acquisition of a new Spine switch, the Scientific Computing Center has significantly improved the access speed of compute nodes to both the center’s backbone and the UAM backbone. In addition, two new ToR switches provide 96 additional high-speed ethernet ports, as well as an InfiniBand switch that adds 40 new connection points.
Storage upgrade.
Following the acquisition of four storage arrays and a new OSS, the Scientific Computing Center will have a Lustre storage system with greater capacity and faster access speeds. In addition, Lustre servers will upgrade their ethernet connections from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps, representing a clear improvement for systems accessing storage over this network.
Increase in AI computing capacity.
The Scientific Computing Center has acquired two new servers equipped with H200 NVL GPUs with NVLink, increasing the available computing capacity for GPU-based workloads, particularly those related to artificial intelligence.
The coming sections contain important information, for both regular and new users of the Center for Scientific Computing.
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Understand what is expected of you as a Center for Scientific Computing's user. All users must comply with these requirements.
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Queueing policies
Users at the Center for Scientific Computing can carry out their computations by sending jobs to a queueing system, which is controled by a resource manager software called Slurm.
Said software divides the currently available machines into different groups of resources, often called partitions (or queues). Existing partitions at the Center for Scientific Computing are divided between public partitions (which are themselves divided into partitions dedicated to users belonging to the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and the ones corresponding to the Spanish Supercomputing Network R.E.S., accesible to both the members of the universitary community of the UAM - CSIC excelence campus and the members of said Network), and private partitions, those established by means of agreements between particular research groups and the Center for Scientific Computing.
The partitions and their access policies are subject to changes; the current structure of the public partitions is displayed in the tables below.
| Queue | cccmd | gpu |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum time per job | 5 days | 5 days |
| Queue | class_a | class_b | class_c |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum time per job | 72 hours | 48 hours | 24 hours |
On the sidebar of this page there is a panel with a list of the queues refered to above
(the queues class_b and class_c are linked to class_a),
with information updated every minute of the jobs sent to each queue.
Remark: additionally, the total number of jobs carried out by the Center for Scientific Computing's
machines is available next to
TOTAL
in the aforementioned panel. This includes both public (those shown above) and private queues.
Usage policies
The existing resources at the Center for Scientific Computation are available to professors, researchers, students, and visiting professors. Personal usage of these resources is completely forbidden. Users must comply with all the directives marked by the University on the access to the University's resources and its security. The Center for Scientific Computation has, as well, additional usage policies, aimed towards the stability of the systems and their fair use for all users. The CCC-UAM reserves the right to change these policies at any time.
Inappropriate usage
Any violation of the security policies of the University or the Center for Scientific Computation, or any behaviour deemed of a criminal nature or a legal threat to the University, will result in the immediate ending of the access privileges to the Center for Scientific Computing's resources without notice, as well as the communication of said breach to the corresponding authorities