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 LRC (Linguistic Research Cluster) is the name of ÚFAL's computational grid/cluster. The cluster is built on top of [[https://slurm.schedmd.com/|SLURM]] and is using [[https://www.lustre.org/|Lustre]] for [[internal:linux-network#directory-structure|data storage]].
+See Milan Straka's intro to Slurm (and Spark and possibly also the [[https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/courses/npfl118#assignments|NPFL118 assingments]] if you want). Use the username=ufal and small linguistic password:
+  * https://lectures.ms.mff.cuni.cz/video/rec/npfl118/2324/npfl118-2324-winter-slurm.mp4
+  * https://lectures.ms.mff.cuni.cz/video/rec/npfl118/2324/npfl118-2324-winter-spark.mp4
+  * https://lectures.ms.mff.cuni.cz/video/rec/npfl118/2324/npfl118-2324-winter-assignments.mp4
 Currently there are following partitions (queues) available for computing:
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 | dll-3gpu[1-5] | 64 | 2:16:2 | 128642 | gpuram48G gpu_cc8.6 | NVIDIA A40 |
 | dll-4gpu[1,2] | 40 | 2:10:2 | 187978 | gpuram24G gpu_cc8.6 | NVIDIA RTX 3090 |
+| dll-4gpu3 | 62 | 1:32:2 | 515652 | gpuram48G gpu_cc8.9 | NVIDIA L40 |
+| dll-4gpu4 | 30 | 1:16:2 | 257616 | gpuram48G gpu_cc8.6 | NVIDIA A40 |
 | dll-8gpu[1,2] | 64 | 2:16:2 | 515838 | gpuram24G gpu_cc8.0 | NVIDIA A30 |
 | dll-8gpu[3,4] | 32 | 2:8:2 | 257830 | gpuram16G gpu_cc8.6 | NVIDIA RTX A4000 |
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-==== Running jobs ====
+==== Inspecting jobs ====
 In order to inspect all running jobs on the cluster use:
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 In the example above you can see comments at all lines relevant to CPU allocation.
+=== Priority ====
+When running srun or sbatch, you can pass ''-q high/normal/low/preempt-low''. These represent priorities 300/200/100/100, with ''normal'' (200) being the default. Furthermore, the ''preempt-low'' QOS is actually preemptible -- if there is a job with normal or high QOS, they can interrupt your ''preempt-low'' job.
+The preemption has probably not been used by anyone yet; some documentation about it is on https://slurm.schedmd.com/preempt.html, we use the REQUEUE regime (so your job is killed, very likely with some signal, so you could monitor it and for example save a checkpoint; but currently I do not know any details), and then started again when there are resources.
 ==== Interactive mode ====
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   * ''-''''-constraint="gpuram48G|gpuram40G"'' only consider nodes that have either ''gpuram48G'' or ''gpuram40G'' feature defined
+\\
+**Unexpected Behavior of ''srun -c1''**
+When you execute a command using ''srun'' and pass ''-c1'' like
+<code>srun -c1 date</code>
+then the command is actually executed **twice in parallel**. To avoid it, you have to either **remove the ''-c1''** or also **add explicit ''-n1''.**
 ==== Delete Job ====
 <code>scancel <job_id> </code>
+<code>scancel -n <job_name> </code>
 To see all the available options type:
-<code>man srun</code>
+<code>man scancel</code>
+==== Basic commands on cluster machines ====
+  lspci
+    # is any such hardware there?
+  nvidia-smi
+    # more details, incl. running processes on the GPU
+    # nvidia-* are typically located in /usr/bin
+  watch nvidia-smi
+    # For monitoring GPU activity in a separate terminal (thanks to Jindrich Libovicky for this!)
+    # You can also use nvidia-smi -l TIME
+  nvcc --version
+    # this should tell CUDA version
+    # nvcc is typically installed in /usr/local/cuda/bin/
+  theano-test
+    # dela to vubec neco uzitecneho? :-)
+    # theano-* are typically located in /usr/local/bin/
+  /usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery/deviceQuery
+    # shows CUDA capability etc.
+  ssh dll1; ~popel/bin/gpu_allocations
+    # who occupies which card on a given machine
 ===== See also =====

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