Skyline

These are my quick notes and not the offical Skyline documentation. The commands below may or may not work for you. Please visit the official documentation website for any latest updates and instructions at https://skyline.niaid.nih.gov/.

Access

Submit Nodes

ai-hpcsubmit1.niaid.nih.gov
ai-hpcsubmit2.niaid.nih.gov

Web ~ Thinlinc

https://hpcthinlinc.niaid.nih.gov/

Running Jobs

Claim an Interactive Node using salloc

salloc --time 2:00:00 --nodes 1 --ntasks 4 -p gpu --gres=gpu:1 --mem 8g

# or

salloc --ntasks 4

# then to launch bash terminal in the alloted interactive node

srun --pty bash

# or 

srun --ntasks 4 --pty bash

--pty: Allocates a pseudo-terminal for interactivity.

Claim an Interactive Node using srun

The command below will allocate 16 cpu cores and 100gb of memory with a walltime of 1 day.

srun --cpus-per-task 16 --mem 100gb --time 1-0:0:0 --pty bash