Brief introduction to the cluster
To provide a good experience for various tasks for various users, the cluster consists of many components. Below are some highlights:
- Variety in compute nodes
- Parallel file system storage
- Fast Infiniband and Ethernet network
- SSH server cluster
- Web portal
- CLI client
- Software by modules and containers
This user guide will not cover the detailed hardware spec but instead focus on the experience instead. If you are interested in those technical details, please feel free to contact us.
Compute nodes
We want to provide a heterogenous cluster with a wide variety of hardware and software, for users to experience different combinations. Compute nodes may have very different models, architecture, and performances. We carefully build and fine-tune the software on the cluster to ensure they fully leverage the computing power. We provide tools on our web portal to help you to choose what suit you.
Besides the OneAsia resources, bringing in hardware is also welcome. Our billing system is smart enough to charge jobs by individual nodes. That means one can submit a giant job to allocate computing power owned by multiple providers. To align the terminology, we group them into 3 pools:
- OneAsia
- Hardware owned by OneAsia Network Limited.
- Bring-in shared
- Hardware brought by external but willing to share with others.
- Quota, priority, preemption, and fair share could be enforced to control who has priority.
- Bring-in dedicated
- Hardware brought by external but not willing to share.