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<header id="title-block-header">
<h1 class="title">Savio introductory training: Basic usage of the
Berkeley Savio high-performance computing cluster</h1>
<p class="author">November 14, 2024</p>
<p class="date">Noah Baker and Chris Paciorek</p>
</header>
<h1 id="hiring-and-other-notes">Hiring and other notes</h1>
<ul>
<li><p>We offer platforms and services for researchers working with <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/srdc/">sensitive
data</a></p></li>
<li><p>Get paid to develop your skills in research data and computing!
Berkeley’s Research IT is hiring graduate student Domain Consultants for
flexible appointments, 15% to 25% effort (6-10 hours/week). We are
seeking diverse and curious candidates from across scholarly disciplines
who are enthusiastic about supporting campus research! Email your cover
letter and CV to: <code>[email protected]</code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="how-to-get-additional-help">How to get additional help</h1>
<ul>
<li>Check the Status and Announcements page:
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/status-and-announcements">https://research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/status-and-announcements</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>For technical issues and questions about using Savio:
<ul>
<li>[email protected]</li>
</ul></li>
<li>For questions about computing resources in general, including cloud
computing:
<ul>
<li>[email protected]</li>
<li>office hours: office hours: Wed. 1:30-3:00 and Thur. 9:30-11:00 <a
href="https://research-it.berkeley.edu/programs/berkeley-research-computing/research-computing-consulting">on
Zoom</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>For questions about data management (including HIPAA-protected
data):
<ul>
<li>[email protected]</li>
<li>office hours: office hours: Wed. 1:30-3:00 and Thur. 9:30-11:00 <a
href="https://research-it.berkeley.edu/programs/berkeley-research-computing/research-computing-consulting">on
Zoom</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="introduction">Introduction</h1>
<p>We’ll do this mostly as a demonstration. We encourage you to login to
your account and try out the various examples yourself as we go through
them.</p>
<p>Much of this material is based on the extensive Savio documention we
have prepared and continue to prepare, available at <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/">https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/</a>.</p>
<p>The materials for this tutorial are available using git at the short
URL (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/brc-nov24">tinyurl.com/brc-nov24</a>),
the GitHub URL (<a
href="https://github.com/ucb-rit/savio-training-intro-fall-2024">https://github.com/ucb-rit/savio-training-intro-fall-2024</a>),
or simply as a <a
href="https://github.com/ucb-rit/savio-training-intro-fall-2024/archive/main.zip">zip
file</a>.</p>
<h1 id="outline">Outline</h1>
<p>This training session will cover the following topics:</p>
<ul>
<li>Introductory content
<ul>
<li>Basic parallel computing concepts</li>
<li>High level overview of system</li>
</ul></li>
<li>System capabilities and hardware
<ul>
<li>Getting access to the system - FCA, condo, ICA</li>
<li>Login nodes, compute nodes, and DTN nodes</li>
<li>Savio computing nodes</li>
<li>Disk space options (home, scratch, group, condo storage)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Logging in and data transfer
<ul>
<li>Logging in</li>
<li>Data transfer
<ul>
<li>SCP/SFTP</li>
<li>Globus</li>
<li>Box & bDrive (Google drive)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Software
<ul>
<li>Software modules</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Submitting and monitoring jobs
<ul>
<li>Acounts and partitions</li>
<li>Basic job submission
<ul>
<li>Per-core and per-node scheduling</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Parallel jobs</li>
<li>GPU jobs</li>
<li>Interactive jobs</li>
<li>Low-priority queue</li>
<li>Monitoring jobs and cluster status</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Open OnDemand (OOD)
<ul>
<li>Jupyter notebooks using OOD</li>
<li>Parallelization in Python with ipyparallel</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="introduction-to-high-performance-computing-hpc">Introduction to
High Performance Computing (HPC)</h1>
<ul>
<li>What is High Performance Computing?
<ul>
<li>HPC involves using big computers and parallel processing to run
applications efficiently, reliably, and quickly.</li>
<li>It’s like having hundreds of powerful computers working together to
solve large and complex problems.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>What is Savio?
<ul>
<li>In layman’s terms:
<ul>
<li>A collection of really powerful computers (nodes)</li>
<li>Some really big, fast hard drives</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Two types of parallel Computing
<ul>
<li>Shared memory (e.g., OpenMP)
<ul>
<li>All computation on the same node</li>
<li>Can have shared objects in RAM in some cases</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Distributed memory (e.g., MPI)
<ul>
<li>Computation on multiple nodes</li>
<li>Special attention to passing information between nodes</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="system-capabilities-and-hardware">System capabilities and
hardware</h1>
<ul>
<li>Savio is a >600-node, >15,000-core Linux cluster rated at
nearly 540 peak teraFLOPS.
<ul>
<li>about 40% of the compute nodes provided by the institution for
general access</li>
<li>about 60% compute nodes contributed by researchers in the Condo
program</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="savio-system-update-rocky-8">Savio System Update: Rocky 8</h1>
<p>Savio has been upgraded to the Rocky 8 operating system.</p>
<ul>
<li>Key Changes with Rocky 8:
<ul>
<li>Enhanced security features</li>
<li>Improved system performance</li>
<li>Better compatibility with the latest software and applications</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Notes for users:
<ul>
<li>MODULEPATH locations have changed from Scientific Linux 7 (prior
version)</li>
<li>Some different modules available with Rocky 8, plus updated versions
of software</li>
<li>OOD logon now uses CalNet authentication via CILogon</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="the-savio-cluster">The Savio cluster</h1>
<p>Savio is a Linux cluster - by cluster we mean a set of computers
networked together</p>
<ul>
<li>Savio has 3 kinds of nodes:
<ul>
<li>Login nodes</li>
<li>Data transfer nodes</li>
<li>Compute nodes</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="conceptual-diagram-of-savio">Conceptual diagram of Savio</h1>
<center>
<img src="savio_diagram_2.jpg">
</center>
<h1 id="getting-access-to-the-system---fca-and-condo">Getting access to
the system - FCA and condo</h1>
<ul>
<li>All regular Berkeley faculty can request 300,000 service units
(roughly core-hours) per year through the <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/getting-account/faculty-computing-allowance/">Faculty
Computing Allowance (FCA)</a></li>
<li>Researchers can also purchase nodes for their own priority access
and gain access to the shared Savio infrastructure and to the ability to
<em>burst</em> to additional nodes through the <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/condos/condo-cluster-service/">condo
cluster program</a></li>
<li>Instructors can request an <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/getting-account/instructional-computing-allowance/">Instructional
Computing Allowance (ICA)</a>.</li>
<li>The application process has gotten even easier with the introduction
of the <a href="https://mybrc.brc.berkeley.edu/">MyBRC</a>, the Berkeley
Research Computing Access Management System</li>
<li>Please bear in mind that applications have to be manually reviewed
before they can be approved.</li>
</ul>
<p>Faculty/principal investigators can allow researchers working with
them to get user accounts with access to the FCA or condo resources
available to the faculty member.</p>
<h1 id="login-nodes">Login nodes</h1>
<ul>
<li>Login nodes
<ul>
<li>Used to access the system when logging in</li>
<li>For login and non-intensive interactive work such as:
<ul>
<li>job submission and monitoring</li>
<li>basic compilation</li>
<li>managing your disk space</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="data-transfer-nodes">Data transfer nodes</h1>
<ul>
<li>Data transfer nodes
<ul>
<li>For transferring data to/from Savio</li>
<li>This is a notable difference from many other clusters
<ul>
<li>Login node: <code>hpc.brc.berkeley.edu</code></li>
<li>Data transfer node: <code>dtn.brc.berkeley.edu</code></li>
<li>Some applications may look for SFTP via login node</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Note: you can access your files on the system from any of the
computers</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="compute-nodes">Compute nodes</h1>
<ul>
<li>Compute nodes
<ul>
<li>For computational tasks</li>
<li>Your work might use parallelization to do computation on more than
one CPU</li>
<li>You can also run “serial” jobs that use a single CPU</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="savio-computing-node-types">Savio computing node types</h1>
<ul>
<li><p>There are multiple types of computation nodes with different
hardware specifications <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/hardware-config/">(see
the <em>Hardware Configuration</em> page)</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>The nodes are divided into several pools, called
<em>partitions</em></p></li>
<li><p>These partitions have different restrictions and costs associated
with them</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/running-your-jobs/scheduler-config/">see
the <em>Scheduler Configuration</em> page</a></li>
<li>and <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/running-your-jobs/service-units-savio/">the
associated costs in Service Units</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>Any job you submit must be submitted to a partition to which you
have access.</p></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="disk-space-options-home-scratch-group-condo-storage">Disk space
options (home, scratch, group, condo storage)</h1>
<ul>
<li>You have access to the multiple kinds of disk space, described <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/storing-data/">here
in the <em>Storing Data</em> page</a>.</li>
<li>There are 3 directories:
<ul>
<li><code>/global/home/users/SAVIO_USERNAME</code>
<ul>
<li>30 GB per user, backed up</li>
</ul></li>
<li><code>/global/home/groups/SAVIO_GROUPNAME</code>
<ul>
<li>Per group: 30 GB for FCA, 200 GB for Condo</li>
</ul></li>
<li><code>/global/scratch/users/SAVIO_USERNAME</code>
<ul>
<li>Connected via Infiniband (very fast)</li>
<li>Primary data storage during computation</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>All 3 are available from any of the nodes and changes to files when
using one node will be seen on all the other nodes</li>
<li>Large amounts of disk space is available for purchase from the <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/condos/condo-storage-service/"><em>condo
storage</em> offering</a>.
<ul>
<li>The minimum purchase is about $5,750, which provides roughly 112 TB
for five years.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="using-disk-space">Using disk space</h1>
<ul>
<li>When reading/writing data to/from disk put the data in your scratch
space at <code>/global/scratch/users/SAVIO_USERNAME</code></li>
<li>The system is set up so that disk access for all users is optimized
when users are doing input/output (I/O) off of scratch rather than off
of their home directories</li>
<li>Doing I/O with files on your home directory can impact the ability
of others to access their files on the filesystem</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="sensitive-data-on-savio">Sensitive Data on Savio</h1>
<ul>
<li>Savio (and AEoD) is <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/getting-account/sensitive-accounts/">certified
for moderately sensitive data</a>
<ul>
<li>P2, P3 (formerly PL1) and NIH dbGap (non-“notice-triggering”
data).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>PIs/faculty must request a P2/P3 project alongside requests for a
new FCA/condo allocation
<ul>
<li>Existing projects can’t be converted to P2/P3 projects.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>BRC has a new-ish platform for highly sensitive data (P4) called
SRDC.</li>
</ul>
<p>More info is available in <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/srdc/">our
documentation</a> or on <a
href="https://research-it.berkeley.edu/services-projects/secure-research-data-computing">our
website</a>.</p>
<h1 id="conceptual-diagram-of-savio-1">Conceptual diagram of Savio</h1>
<center>
<img src="savio_diagram_2.jpg">
</center>
<h1 id="logging-in-getting-set-up">Logging in: Getting Set Up</h1>
<ul>
<li>To login, you need to have software on your own machine that gives
you access to the SSH command
<ul>
<li>These come built-in with Mac (see
<code>Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal</code>).</li>
<li>For Windows, you can use Powershell (or Command Prompt)
<ul>
<li>Other applications such as <a
href="https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/">MobaXterm</a> may offer more
functionality</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>You also need to set up your smartphone or tablet with <em>Google
Authenticator</em> to generate one-time passwords for you.</li>
<li>Here are instructions for <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/logging-brc-clusters/">doing
this setup, and for logging in</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="logging-in">Logging in</h1>
<p>Then to login:</p>
<pre><code>ssh [email protected]</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><p>Then enter XXXXXYYYYYY where XXXXXX is your PIN and YYYYYY is the
one-time password. YYYYYY will be shown when you open your <em>Google
authenticator</em> app on your phone/tablet.</p></li>
<li><p>One can then navigate around and get information using standard
UNIX commands such as <code>ls</code>, <code>cd</code>, <code>du</code>,
<code>df</code>, etc.</p>
<ul>
<li>There is a lot of material online about using the UNIX command line
<ul>
<li>Also called the shell; ‘bash’ is one common variation</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Here is one <a
href="https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice">basic tutorial from
Software Carpentry</a> and <a
href="https://computing.stat.berkeley.edu/tutorial-unix-basics/">another
one from the Berkeley Statistical Computing Facility</a>.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="graphical-interface">Graphical Interface</h1>
<p>If you want to be able to open programs with graphical user
interfaces:</p>
<pre><code>ssh -Y [email protected]</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>To display the graphical windows on your local machine, you’ll need
X server software on your own machine to manage the graphical windows
<ul>
<li>For Windows, your options include <em>MobaXterm</em>,
<em>eXceed</em>, or <em>Xming</em></li>
<li>For Mac, there is <em>XQuartz</em></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>An option that will often be better is to use Open OnDemand
(ood.brc.berkeley.edu) to access Savio via your browser.</p>
<h1 id="logging-in-via-browser-using-open-ondemand">Logging in (via
browser using Open OnDemand)</h1>
<p>Alternatively one can login via OOD to access Savio:</p>
<ul>
<li>Connect to <a
href="https://ood.brc.berkeley.edu">ood.brc.berkeley.edu</a>.
<ul>
<li>Login via CILogon (select UC Berkeley) with your CalNet
credentials.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>You can then access the OOD services at the top of the page.
<ul>
<li>For a terminal, click on “Clusters” and then “BRC Shell Access”</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="editing-files">Editing files</h1>
<p>You are welcome to edit your files on Savio (rather than copying
files back and forth from your laptop and editing them on your laptop).
To do so you’ll need to use some sort of editor. Savio has
<code>vim</code>, <code>emacs</code>, and <code>nano</code> installed.
Just start the editor from a login node.</p>
<pre><code>## To use vim
vim myfile.txt
## To use emacs
emacs myfile.txt
## To use nano
module load nano
nano myfile.txt</code></pre>
<h1
id="data-transfer-with-examples-tofrom-laptop-box-google-drive-aws">Data
transfer with examples to/from laptop, Box, Google Drive, AWS</h1>
<p>To do any work on the system, you’ll usually need to transfer files
(data files, code files, etc.) to the Savio filesystem, either into your
home directory, your scratch directory or a group directory.</p>
<p>And once you’re done with a computation, you’ll generally need to
transfer files back to another place (e.g., your laptop).</p>
<p>Let’s see how we would transfer files/data to/from Savio using a few
different approaches.</p>
<h1 id="data-transfer-for-smaller-files-scp">Data transfer for smaller
files: SCP</h1>
<ul>
<li><p>The most common command line protocol for file transfer is
<em>SCP</em></p></li>
<li><p>You need to use the Savio data transfer node,
<code>dtn.brc.berkeley.edu</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>The example file <code>bayArea.csv</code> is too large to store
on Github; you can obtain it <a
href="https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/share/paciorek/bayArea.csv">here</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>SCP is supported in terminal for Mac/Linux and in
Powershell/Command Prompt in Windows</p></li>
</ul>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb4"><pre
class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb4-1"><a href="#cb4-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co"># to Savio, while on your local machine</span></span>
<span id="cb4-2"><a href="#cb4-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">scp</span> bayArea.csv <span class="va">$USER</span>@dtn.brc.berkeley.edu:~/.</span>
<span id="cb4-3"><a href="#cb4-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">scp</span> bayArea.csv <span class="va">$USER</span>@dtn.brc.berkeley.edu:~/data/newName.csv</span>
<span id="cb4-4"><a href="#cb4-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">scp</span> bayArea.csv <span class="va">$USER</span>@dtn.brc.berkeley.edu:/global/scratch/users/<span class="va">$USER</span>/.</span>
<span id="cb4-5"><a href="#cb4-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a></span>
<span id="cb4-6"><a href="#cb4-6" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co"># from Savio, while on your local machine</span></span>
<span id="cb4-7"><a href="#cb4-7" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">scp</span> <span class="va">$USER</span>@dtn.brc.berkeley.edu:~/data/newName.csv ~/Documents/.</span></code></pre></div>
<p>If you can ssh to your local machine or want to transfer files to
other systems on to which you can ssh, you can login to the dtn node to
execute the scp commands:</p>
<pre><code>ssh [email protected]
[SAVIO_USERNAME@dtn ~]$ scp ~/file.csv [email protected]:~/data/.</code></pre>
<p>If you’re already connected to a Savio login node, you can use
<code>ssh dtn</code> to login to the dtn.</p>
<p>Pro tip: You can package multiple files (including directory
structure) together using tar</p>
<pre><code>tar -cvzf files.tgz dir_to_zip
# to untar later:
tar -xvzf files.tgz</code></pre>
<h1 id="data-transfer-for-smaller-files-sftp">Data transfer for smaller
files: SFTP</h1>
<ul>
<li>Another common method for file transfer is <em>SFTP</em></li>
<li>A multi-platform program for doing transfers via SFTP is <a
href="https://filezilla-project.org/">FileZilla</a>.</li>
<li>After logging in to most <em>SFTP</em> applications, you’ll see
windows for the Savio filesystem and your local filesystem on your
machine. You can drag files back and forth.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="data-transfer-for-larger-files-globus-intro">Data transfer for
larger files: Globus, Intro</h1>
<ul>
<li>You can use Globus Connect to transfer data data to/from Savio (and
between other resources) quickly and unattended
<ul>
<li>This is a better choice for large transfers</li>
<li>Here are some <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/transferring-data/using-globus-connect-savio/">instructions</a>.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Globus transfers data between <em>endpoints</em>
<ul>
<li>Possible endpoints include
<ul>
<li>Savio</li>
<li>your laptop or desktop</li>
<li>Other clusters like NERSC and ACCESS (XSEDE)</li>
<li>bDrive</li>
<li>Collaborators & other researchers not on savio</li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="data-transfer-for-larger-files-globus-requirements">Data
transfer for larger files: Globus, requirements</h1>
<ul>
<li>If you are transferring to/from your laptop, you’ll need
<ol type="1">
<li>Globus Connect Personal set up,</li>
<li>your machine established as an endpoint, and</li>
<li>Globus Connect Personal actively running on your machine. At that
point you can proceed as below.</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Savio’s endpoint is named <code>ucb#brc</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="data-transfer-for-larger-files-globus-setup">Data transfer for
larger files: Globus, Setup</h1>
<ul>
<li>To transfer files, you open Globus at <a
href="https://globus.org">globus.org</a> and authenticate to the
endpoints you want to transfer between.
<ul>
<li>This means that you only need to authenticate once, whereas you
might need to authenticate multiple times with scp and sftp.</li>
<li>You can then start a transfer and it will proceed in the background,
including restarting if interrupted.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Globus also provides a <a
href="https://docs.globus.org/cli/">command line interface</a> that will
allow you to do transfers programmatically
<ul>
<li>Thus a transfer could be embedded in a workflow script.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="data-transfer-box-bdrive">Data transfer: Box & bDrive</h1>
<ul>
<li>Box and bDrive (the Cal branded Google Drive) both provide free,
secured, and encrypted content storage of files to Berkeley affiliates
<ul>
<li>However, recent quotas imposed on Box and bDrive now limit their
usefulness for research data</li>
<li>Box quotas
<ul>
<li>50GB for new individual accounts</li>
<li>500GB for new Special Purpose Accounts (“SPAs”)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>bDrive quotas
<ul>
<li>50GB for new individual accounts</li>
<li>150GB for existing individual accounts</li>
</ul></li>
<li>bDrive has a maximum file size of 5Tb, Box has a maximum file size
of 15 Gb</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Alternative paid options are also available
<ul>
<li>Cloud storage options include Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure, and
Wasabi
<ul>
<li>See the <a
href="https://technology.berkeley.edu/services/cloud">bCloud web
page</a> for more information</li>
</ul></li>
<li>As mentioned earlier, Condo computing contributors can also buy into
the condo storage program</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="data-transfer-box-and-bdrive-access">Data transfer: Box and
bDrive Access</h1>
<ul>
<li>You can interact with both services via web browser, and both
services provide a desktop app you can use to move and sync files
between your computer and the cloud.
<ul>
<li><a href="http://box.berkeley.edu">Box web app</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.box.com/resources/downloads">Box desktop
app</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bdrive.berkeley.edu/">bDrive web app</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/drive/download/">Drive desktop
app</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>For more ambitious users, Box has a Python-based SDK that can be used
to write scripts for file transfers. For more information on how to do
this, check out the <code>BoxAuthenticationBootstrap.ipynb</code> and
<code>TransferFilesFromBoxToSavioScratch.ipynb</code> from BRC’s
cyberinfrastructure engineer on <a
href="https://github.com/ucberkeley/brc-cyberinfrastructure/tree/dev/analysis-workflows/notebooks">GitHub</a></p>
<h1 id="data-transfer-box-bdrive-with-rclone-setup">Data transfer: Box
& bDrive with rclone setup</h1>
<p><a href="https://rclone.org/"><em>rclone</em></a> is a command line
program that you can use to sync files between both services and Savio.
You can read instructions for using rclone on Savio <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/transferring-data/rclone-box-bdrive/">with
Box or bDrive here</a>.</p>
<p>Briefly the steps to set up <em>rclone</em> on Savio to interact with
Box are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Configuration (on dtn): <code>rclone config</code></li>
<li>Use auto config? -> n</li>
<li>For Box: install rclone on your PC, then run
<code>rclone authorize "box"</code></li>
<li>Paste the link into your browser and log in to your CalNet
account</li>
<li>Copy the authentication token and paste into the
<code>rclone config</code> prompt on Savio</li>
</ul>
<p>Finally you can set up <a
href="https://calnetweb.berkeley.edu/calnet-departments/special-purpose-accounts-spa">special
purpose accounts</a> so files are owned at a project level rather than
by individuals.</p>
<h1 id="data-transfer-box-bdrive-with-rclone-practice">Data transfer:
Box & bDrive with rclone practice</h1>
<p><em>rclone</em> basics:</p>
<ul>
<li>Switch to DTN before using if on login node
<ul>
<li>Use command <code>ssh dtn</code></li>
<li>If using <em>rclone</em> on another node You need to load
<em>rclone</em> before use
<ul>
<li>Run command <code>module load rclone</code></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>All <em>rclone</em> commands begin with <code>rclone</code> and are
then followed by a commands
<ul>
<li>The commands are different from bash (i.e., <code>cp</code> in
<em>bash</em> vs. <code>copy</code> in rclone)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>To reference a file on the remote you add configured remote name
followed by a colon followed by the file path
<ul>
<li>For example <code>clint_bdrive:project_folder</code></li>
<li>To access the main folder leave nothing after the colon (e.g.,
<code>clint_bdrive:</code>)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>For more tips and tricks see <a
href="https://docs-research-it.berkeley.edu/services/high-performance-computing/user-guide/transferring-data/rclone-box-bdrive/">our
docs</a></li>
</ul>
<p><em>rclone</em> example:</p>
<pre><code>rclone listremotes # Lists configured remotes.
rclone lsd remote_name: # Lists directories, but not files. Note the trailing colon.
rclone size remote_name:home # Prints size and number of objects in remote "home" directory. This can take a very long time when tallying Tbs of files.
rclone copy /global/home/users/hannsode remote_name:savio_home/hannsode # Copies my entire home directory to a new directory on the remote.
rclone copy /global/scratch/users/hannsode/genomes remote_name:genome_sequences # Copies entire directory contents to a dirctory on the remote with a new name.</code></pre>
<h1 id="software-modules">Software modules</h1>
<p>A lot of software is available on Savio but needs to be loaded from
the relevant software module before you can use it.</p>
<p>(We do this not to confuse you but to avoid clashes between
incompatible software and allow multiple versions of a piece of software
to co-exist on the system.)</p>
<pre><code>module list # What's loaded?
module avail # What's available?</code></pre>
<p>One thing that tricks people is that some the modules are arranged in
a hierarchical (nested) fashion, so you only see some of the modules as
being available <em>after</em> you load the parent module (e.g., MKL,
FFT, and HDF5/NetCDF software are nested within the gcc module). Here’s
how we see and load MPI.</p>
<pre><code>module load openmpi # This fails if gcc not yet loaded.
module spider openmpi
module spider openmpi/4.1.6
module load gcc/13.2.0
module avail
module load openmpi</code></pre>
<h1 id="python-and-r-changes-with-rocky-8">Python and R (changes with
Rocky 8)</h1>
<p>Here are some core modules for data analysis and machine
learning:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>python</code>: Python 3.11.6 with a some useful Python
packages</li>
<li><code>anaconda3</code>: Python 3.11.7 with many useful Python
packages plus Conda-related tools</li>
<li><code>ml/pytorch</code>: Python 3.11.7 with PyTorch</li>
<li><code>r</code>: R 4.4.0 with some useful R packages</li>
<li><code>r-spatial</code>: GIS/spatial-related R packages</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="submitting-jobs-overview">Submitting jobs: overview</h1>
<p>All computations are done by submitting jobs to the scheduling
software that manages jobs on the cluster, called SLURM.</p>
<p>Why is this necessary? Otherwise your jobs would be slowed down by
other people’s jobs running on the same node. This also allows everyone
to share Savio in a fair way.</p>
<p>The basic workflow is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Login to Savio (SSH or via ood.brc.berkeley.edu).
<ul>
<li>You’ll end up on one of the login nodes in your home directory.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Use <code>cd</code> to go to the directory from which you want to
submit the job.</li>
<li>Submit the job using <code>sbatch</code> (or an interactive job
using <code>srun</code>, discussed later).
<ul>
<li>When your job starts, the working directory will be the one from
which the job was submitted.</li>
<li>The job will be running on a compute node, not the login node.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="submitting-jobs-accounts-and-partitions">Submitting jobs:
accounts and partitions</h1>
<p>When submitting a job, the main things you need to indicate are the
project account you are using and the partition. Note that there is a
default value for the project account, but if you have access to
multiple accounts such as an FCA and a condo, it’s good practice to
specify it.</p>
<p>You can see what accounts you have access to and which partitions
within those accounts as follows:</p>
<pre><code>sacctmgr -p show associations user=$USER</code></pre>
<p>Here’s an example of the output for a user who has access to an FCA
and a condo:</p>
<pre><code>Cluster|Account|User|Partition|Share|GrpJobs|GrpTRES|GrpSubmit|GrpWall|GrpTRESMins|MaxJobs|MaxTRES|MaxTRESPerNode|MaxSubmit|MaxWall|MaxTRESMins|QOS|Def QOS|GrpTRESRunMins|
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio4_gpu|1|||||||||||||a5k_gpu4_normal,savio_lowprio|a5k_gpu4_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio4_htc|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio3_gpu|1|||||||||||||a40_gpu3_normal,gtx2080_gpu3_normal,savio_lowprio,v100_gpu3_normal|gtx2080_gpu3_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio3_htc|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio3_bigmem|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio3|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio2_1080ti|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio2_knl|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio2_gpu|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio2_htc|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_long,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio2_bigmem|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio2|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|fc_paciorek|paciorek|savio_bigmem|1|||||||||||||savio_debug,savio_normal|savio_normal||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio3_gpu|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio4_gpu|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio4_htc|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio3_htc|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio3_bigmem|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio3|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio2_1080ti|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio2_knl|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio2_bigmem|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio2_gpu|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio,stat_gpu2_normal|stat_gpu2_normal||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio2_htc|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio_bigmem|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio|savio_lowprio||
brc|co_stat|paciorek|savio2|1|||||||||||||savio_lowprio,stat_savio2_normal|stat_savio2_normal||</code></pre>
<p>If you are part of a condo, you’ll notice that you have
<em>low-priority</em> access to certain partitions. For example, user
‘paciorek’ is part of the statistics condo <em>co_stat</em>, which
purchased some <code>savio2</code> nodes and therefore has normal access
to those, but he can also burst beyond the condo and use other
partitions at low-priority (see below).</p>
<p>In contrast, through his FCA, ‘paciorek’ has access to the savio2,
savio3, and savio4 partitions as well as various big memory, HTC, and
GPU partitions, all at normal priority.</p>
<h1 id="submitting-a-batch-job">Submitting a batch job</h1>
<p>Let’s see how to submit a simple job. If your job will only use the
resources on a single node, you can do the following.</p>
<p>Here’s an example job script that I’ll run, requesting four cores.
You’ll need to modify the –account value and possibly the –partition
value.</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb12"><pre
class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb12-1"><a href="#cb12-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#!/bin/bash</span></span>
<span id="cb12-2"><a href="#cb12-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co"># Job name:</span></span>
<span id="cb12-3"><a href="#cb12-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#SBATCH --job-name=test</span></span>
<span id="cb12-4"><a href="#cb12-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#</span></span>
<span id="cb12-5"><a href="#cb12-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co"># Account:</span></span>
<span id="cb12-6"><a href="#cb12-6" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#SBATCH --account=fc_paciorek</span></span>
<span id="cb12-7"><a href="#cb12-7" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#</span></span>
<span id="cb12-8"><a href="#cb12-8" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co"># Cores:</span></span>
<span id="cb12-9"><a href="#cb12-9" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=4</span></span>
<span id="cb12-10"><a href="#cb12-10" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#</span></span>
<span id="cb12-11"><a href="#cb12-11" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co"># Partition:</span></span>
<span id="cb12-12"><a href="#cb12-12" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#SBATCH --partition=savio3_htc</span></span>
<span id="cb12-13"><a href="#cb12-13" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="co">#</span></span>