How-To: Connect to High-Memory Nodes

Prequisites

You have to register with hpc-helpdesk@bih-charite.de for requesting access.

Afterwards, you can connect to the High-Memory using the highmem SLURM partition (see below). Jobs allocating more than 200GB of RAM should be routed automatically to the highmem nodes.

How-To

In the cluster there are four High-memory used which can be used:

res-login-1:~$ sinfo -p highmem
PARTITION AVAIL  TIMELIMIT  NODES  STATE NODELIST 
highmem      up 14-00:00:0      3   idle med040[1-4] 

To connect to one of them, simply allocate more than 200GB of RAM in your job.

res-login-1:~$ srun --pty --memory=300GB bash -i
med0401:~$

You can also pick one of the hostnames:

res-login-1:~$ srun --pty --memory=300GB --nodelist=med0403 bash -i
med0403:~$

After successfull login, you can see that you are in "highmem" queue:

med0403:~$ squeue
             JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON) 
[...]
               270   highmem     bash holtgrem  R       1:25      1 med0403 

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Last update: September 1, 2023