{"id":961,"date":"2019-04-24T22:19:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/?page_id=961"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:44:04","slug":"home-v2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Supercomputing Wales offers powerful computing facilities for high-profile science and innovation projects within the SCW consortium universities \u2013 Cardiff University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Aberystwyth University.<\/p> <p>This user portal contains an array of systems and support documentation to aid use of the services we offer at all levels. <\/p> <p>Don&#8217;t hesitate to get in touch if there is anything else we can do for you.<\/p> <div id=\"accordions-959\" class=\"accordions-959 accordions\" data-accordions={&quot;lazyLoad&quot;:true,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;959&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;collapsible&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;heightStyle&quot;:&quot;content&quot;,&quot;animateStyle&quot;:&quot;swing&quot;,&quot;animateDelay&quot;:1000,&quot;navigation&quot;:true,&quot;active&quot;:999,&quot;expandedOther&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}>\r\n                <div id=\"accordions-lazy-959\" class=\"accordions-lazy\" accordionsId=\"959\">\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"items\"  style=\"display:none\" >\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"959\" itemcount=\"0\"  header_id=\"header-1564060927675\" id=\"header-1564060927675\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1564060927675 border-semi-round\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"About SCW Systems\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1564060927675\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1564060927675\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">About SCW Systems<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1564060927675 \">\r\n                <div id=\"ui-id-1\" class=\"accordion-content content1556120858434 ui-accordion-content ui-helper-reset ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom accordion-content-active\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"header-1556120858434\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p>Supercomputing Wales operate two Supercomputers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cardiff HPC System - Falcon - see <a href=\"https:\/\/my.supercomputing.wales\">MySCW<\/a> for links to documentation.<\/li>\n<li>Swansea HPC System - <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/about-sunbird\/\">About Sunbird<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n            <\/div>\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"959\" itemcount=\"1\"  header_id=\"header-1564060930351\" id=\"header-1564060930351\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1564060930351 border-semi-round\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"Registration &amp; Access\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1564060930351\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1564060930351\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">Registration &amp; Access<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1564060930351 \">\r\n                <div id=\"ui-id-2\" class=\"accordion-content content1556117584236 ui-accordion-content ui-helper-reset ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom accordion-content-active\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-hidden=\"true\" aria-labelledby=\"header-1556117584236\">\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/my.supercomputing.wales\">MySCW<\/a> for links to current documentation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n            <\/div>\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"959\" itemcount=\"2\"  header_id=\"header-1556118077542\" id=\"header-1556118077542\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1556118077542 border-semi-round\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"Using the Systems\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1556118077542\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1556118077542\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">Using the Systems<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1556118077542 \">\r\n                <p>SCW supercomputers are linux-powered and use the Slurm batch scheduler to manage the allocation of computational resources.\u00a0 A full application software stack is provided and supported<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/command-line-environment\/\">Command Line Interface & Software Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/submitting-jobs\/\">Running Jobs with Slurm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/migrating-jobs\/\">Slurm Job Directives, Variables & Partitions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/using-gpus\/\">Using GPUs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/storage-quotas\/\">Data Storage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/hawk-cardiff-research-datastore-rds-access-vm\/\">Hawk Cardiff Research Datastore (RDS) access VM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/best-practice\/\">Conduct & Best Practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/using-hawks-amd-epyc-nodes\/\">Using the AMD EPYC Systems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For software specific documentation, please see the <em>Software Training & Guides <\/em>section below.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"959\" itemcount=\"3\"  header_id=\"header-1564060389075\" id=\"header-1564060389075\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1564060389075 border-semi-round\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"Advanced Use\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1564060389075\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1564060389075\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">Advanced Use<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1564060389075 \">\r\n                <p>Use of the supercomputers is largely simple, but some types of more advanced use are covered here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/batch-submission-of-mpi-and-openmp\/\">MPI and\/or OpenMP Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/interactive-use-job-arrays\/job-arrays\/\">Job Arrays<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/interactive-use-job-arrays\/batch-submission-of-serial-jobs-for-parallel-execution\/\">Batch Submission of Serial Tasks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/interactive-use-job-arrays\/custom-parallel-task-geometry\/\">Custom Job Geometry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/interactive-use-job-arrays\/interactive-use\/\">Interactive Compute Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/interactive-use-job-arrays\/x11-gui-forwarding\/\">X11 Graphical Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/VNC_Unix.pdf\">VNC Guide (Linux\/OS X) - Sunbird Only<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n            <\/div>\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"959\" itemcount=\"4\"  header_id=\"header-1556118304777\" id=\"header-1556118304777\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1556118304777 border-semi-round\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"Software Training &amp; Guides\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1556118304777\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1556118304777\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">Software Training &amp; Guides<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1556118304777 \">\r\n                <p>A number of example jobs an application guides are available, please see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/use-of-software-examples\/\">Training Software Examples<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/application-guides\/\">Application Guides & References<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And covering other software:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/how-to-guides-archive\/\">How-To Guides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/technical-notes\/\">Technical Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n            <\/div>\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"959\" itemcount=\"5\"  header_id=\"header-1556118161216\" id=\"header-1556118161216\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1556118161216 border-semi-round\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"Software Development\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1556118161216\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1556118161216\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">Software Development<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1556118161216 \">\r\n                <p><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/development-environment\/\">Development environment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using GPUs<\/p>\n<p>Debugging<\/p>\n<p>Profiling<\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"959\" itemcount=\"6\"  header_id=\"header-1564061587553\" id=\"header-1564061587553\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1564061587553 border-semi-round\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"Migrating from other HPC systems\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1564061587553\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1564061587553\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">Migrating from other HPC systems<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1564061587553 \">\r\n                <p>For users migrating from HPC Wales and\/or Raven:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/quick-start-for-hpc-wales-users-migrating-to-scw\/\">Rapid Start for HPCW Users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/rapid-start-for-raven-users-migrating-to-scw-hawk\/\">Rapid Start for Raven Users<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you're familiar with and migrating from other HPC systems, these quick reference documents will help you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/pbs-pro-to-slurm-very-quick-reference\/\">PBS Pro Migration Quick Ref <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/index\/slurm\/lsf-to-slurm-ref\/\">LSF Migration Quick Ref<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.supercomputing.wales\/index.php\/sge-to-slurm\/\">SGE Migration Quick Ref<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n            <\/div>\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"959\" itemcount=\"7\"  header_id=\"header-1564063836238\" id=\"header-1564063836238\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1564063836238 border-semi-round\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"External Links\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1564063836238\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span 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