Differences in Platforms

This article presents an overview comparison of the differences between the Legacy HPC, new eRI (eResearch Infrastructure) and the NeSI Mahuika platforms that Researchers have used in various capacities.

 

Legacy HPC

eRI

NeSI Mahuika

 

Legacy HPC

eRI

NeSI Mahuika

Computation

 

eRI Partitions Guide

Mahuika Partitions Guide

Approximately

 

~1072 Physical Cores
~15T RAM
6 GPUs

~35,000 Physical Cores
~80P RAM
~38 GPUs

Job Scheduling

slurm, interactive

slurm, interactive

slurm, interactive

Accounting

monitored but quotas not enforced

enforced

enforced

Software

conda, containers, nix

conda, containers, nix?modules

conda, containers, modules

 

 

Self, NeSI, AgR Staff

Self, NeSI Staff

Access

ssh

ssh, Open on Demand,
jupyter/RStudio

ssh, jupyter, RStudio

 

 

 

 

Help

Support Desk

Support Desk

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NeSI via Portal

support@nesi.org.nz

Documentation

 

 

 

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