Beverin¶

Beverin is an AMD-based GPU cluster for the purpose of testing and porting applications.

Cluster Specification¶

Login node¶

Beverin has one MI250X login node.

Compute Nodes¶

Beverin consists of 13 MI250X and 128 MI300A compute nodes.

See Running jobs on Beverin for details on the associated slurm partitions.

Storage and file systems¶

Beverin uses the HPCP filesystems and storage policies.

Getting started¶

Logging into Beverin¶

To connect to Beverin via SSH, first refer to the ssh guide.

Host beverin
    HostName beverin.vc.cscs.ch
    ProxyJump ela
    User cscsusername
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/cscs-key
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Software¶

Beverin provides uenv to deliver programming environments and application software. Please refer to the uenv documentation for detailed information on how to use the uenv tools on the system.

In addition to the base GNU and linalg programming environments, a few other dedicated environments are provided on a best effort basis:

See the uenv quick start guide to find all programming environments available on Beverin.

Containers¶

Beverin supports container workloads using the Container Engine.

To build images, see the guide to building container images on Alps.

Running Jobs on Beverin¶

Slurm¶

Beverin uses Slurm as the workload manager, which is used to launch and monitor distributed workloads.

There are two Slurm partitions on the system, corresponding to the two node types:

• mi200 (default)
• mi300

FirecREST¶

Beverin can also be accessed using FirecREST at the https://api.cscs.ch/ml/firecrest/v2 API endpoint.