Use the following forms to request a container in any of the server in the CSE Compute cluster.

• New Container/Container Extension

  • To request for a new container in any of the computing servers

  • To request an extension/modification of your existing containers in the computing servers

• Storage Request on Rhino

• To request for storage space

• Non-CSE Requirements [For Faculties]To provide validation information for non-CSE students working under a faculty form the department

[*The storage space provided in the server is only for running your experiments. For backup, the dedicated storage server -“Rhino” must be used.]

New Conatiner Setup

• Dual Controller with min 8GB Cache per controller

• Support Raid levels – 5,6,1,0,10

• 18 x 1.92TB SSD to achieve 30TB Usable capacity with 1 Hot spare drive.

• 4 x 16Gbps FC host ports per controller.

• 50k IOPS at 70% read/30% write operations

• 6 x LC-LC connecting Cables ( 5 Mtr)

Note: You can view the actual data required for your experiments as ONLINE storage and back-up data as OFFLINE storage. We strongly suggest you to move all your OFFLINE data to the storage server at frequent intervals so as to free the storage space available on each of the servers for better performance for everyone.

• On client side (this is your desktop or any server where you would like to mount your Rhino Storage) ,

  • Install following packages,

    • SAMBA (apt-get installl samba)

    • GVFS-BACKENDS (apt-get install gvfs-backends)

    • VSFTPD (apt install vsftpd)

• Go to the option connect to the server

• Connect via sftp:// <<username>>@cse.iitrpr.ac.in

• The password for accessing the storage as provided to you

  • Initially all users have same username and password, which can be changed at first login.

• You can also do ssh to connect to storage.

• To check quota via SSH please use the command quota -s

**Further, any SFTP client such as FileZilla can also be used to access the Rhino storage.

• The Rhino storage can be mounted on the server/PC by installing NFS client (pkg: nfs-common) and entering it in /etc/fstab with command,

• cse.iitrpr.ac.in:/<<location>>/abc /mnt/san nfs username=abc,password=abc_p 0 0

• Where abc is the username and abc_p is the password

• location:

  • For faculties: use – faculty

  • For students/staff: use – student_staff

• You can check the following link [step 2] for further information on the setup – https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/nfs-share

• For data transfer and storage access, SSH/winscp/SCP/etc can be used.

• Intel Xeon Gold 5220 (2.2GHz/18-core/36 Threads/24.75 MB/TDP 125 W) x 2

• 250 GB RAM DDR4

• 1TB SSD

• 2.4 TB NL-SAS

• 3xGTX Telse T4,16GB (NVIDIA CUDA® Cores : 2,560)

• Features of Nvidia Tesla T4

  • Belongs to Tesla series

  • Turing microarchitecture, TU104-895-A1 chip

  • Cuda cores 2560

• 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 (2.60GHz/16-core/22MB/150W)

• 384 GB RAM DDR4

• 6X1TB HDD SATA

• 6xGTX 1080Ti,11GB (NVIDIA CUDA® Cores : 3584)

• Features of Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti:

  • Belongs to GeForce 10 series

  • Pascal microarchitecture, GP102 chips

  • 16nm FinFET fabrication technology

Note: Tejas containers are alloted with a fixed configuration – 60GB RAM, 12 GB dedicated graphic card and 200 GB Hard drive space. Due to the configuration settings only a few containers can be maintained. A user may need to make a fresh request for Tejas containers if the containers time had expired for more than 15 days. Within 15 days of container time expiration, a user can request for extension of resource.

• 2 Intel Xeon Silver (32 Cores)

• 8X32 GB RAM

• 480 GB SSD

• 2X1TB HDD

• 3 NVIDIA Tesla P100 12GB

• Features of Nvidia Tesla P100

  • Belongs to Tesla series

  • Pascal microarchitecture, GP100 chips

  • 16nm FinFET fabrication technology

  • 3584 cores

• DELL Poweredge 930 server

• Intel Xeon Processor

• 550 GB RAM

• 1 TB SSD

• 1 TB NLSAS

• DELL Workstation (Z640 series)

• Xeon processor

• 16 GB RAM

• 2 TB SATA

• NVIDIA GPU

• In order to access the HPC server from home, you will require VPN

• The following links help setup VPN access

  • Win/Mac Users

  • Ubuntu Users

  • Android Users

• During a semester, the requests for resources as part of the course requirements of students take precedence over research

• All containers which are inactive for more than 7 days (after they get expired) will be removed. It is the responsibility of the users to take the backup of their data before the expiration of their containers.