MOAB quick-start-guide

MOAB Quick Start Guide

MOAB description

MOAB is a cluster with 64 compute nodes based on Intel Harpertown processor and interconnected with Infiniband network. Has a peak performance of 3.6 TFlops. Nodes have 8 cores, 64 GB memory and 1 TB of local disk storage.

Connecting to the system

• To access MOAB cluster, a SSH client (Secure Shell) must be used.
• For security reasons, access to our computing servers is restricted to Israeli university researchers only.
• Remote access will be set per PRACE application approval.
• Accessible through SSH protocol at hostname moab.iucc.ac.il. moab.iucc.ac.il is a prep area, where users may edit, compile, perform file management, and submit batch jobs.

Job submission

• Job submission using python
  • will be updated soon...
• Job submission using slurm
  1. Write a text file (job bash script) containing submission options and the list of commands to be executed (run.sh)
  2. Submit the job with the ``sbatch run.sh`` command
  3. Check job status with ``squeue -u $USER`` command

Applications

Applications use is configured through the “module” command:

• Available applications: ``module avail``
• Brief application user guide: ``module help <application>/<version>``
• For building applications using EasyBuild:
  1. Run ``module load EasyBuild/3.4.1``
  2. Follow instructions on [EasyBuild CLI documentation](http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Using_the_EasyBuild_command_line.html)

Storage and directories

• Each user has a local scratch disk on the node to work with.