Frontera (TACC)
Platform user guide
General description
Resource manager -
SLURM
Launch methods (per platform ID)
tacc.frontera
-MPIRUN
tacc.frontera_rtx
-SRUN
tacc.frontera_prte
-PRTE
(PRRTE/PMIx)
Configuration per node (per platform ID)
tacc.frontera
,tacc.frontera_prte
Cascade Lake (CLX) compute nodes (8,368 nodes)
56 CPU cores
192 GB of memory
Large memory nodes (16 nodes)
112 CPU cores
2.1 TB of memory (NVDIMM)
tacc.frontera_rtx
(90 nodes)32 CPU cores
4 GPUs (NVIDIA RTX 5000)
128 GB of memory
Setup execution environment
Python virtual environment
Create a virtual environment with venv
:
export PYTHONNOUSERSITE=True
module load python3
python3 -m venv ve.rp
source ve.rp/bin/activate
Install RADICAL-Pilot after activating a corresponding virtual environment:
pip install radical.pilot
Launching script example
Launching script (e.g., rp_launcher.sh
) for the RADICAL-Pilot application
includes setup processes to activate a certain execution environment and
launching command for the application itself.
#!/bin/sh
# - pre run -
module load python3
source ve.rp/bin/activate
export RADICAL_PROFILE=TRUE
# for debugging purposes
export RADICAL_LOG_LVL=DEBUG
# - run -
python <rp_application>
Execute launching script as ./rp_launcher.sh
or run it in the background:
nohup ./rp_launcher.sh > OUTPUT 2>&1 </dev/null &
# check the status of the script running:
# jobs -l
Note
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