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GPU Computing on Sapelo2

Hardware

For a description of the Graphics Processing Units (GPU) device specifications, please see GPU Hardware.

The following table summarizes the GPU devices available on sapelo2:

Number of nodes CPU cores per node Host memory per node CPU processor GPU model GPU devices per node Device memory GPU compute capability Minimum CUDA version Partition Name Notes
12 64 1TB Intel Sapphire Rapids H100 4 80GB 9.0 11.8 gpu_p, gpu_30d_p Need to request --gres=gpu:H100, e.g.,

#SBATCH --partition=gpu_p

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:H100:1

#SBATCH --time=7-00:00:00

14 64 1TB AMD Milan A100 4 80GB 8.0 11.0 gpu_p, gpu_30d_p Need to request --gres=gpu:A100, e.g.,

#SBATCH --partition=gpu_p

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:A100:1

#SBATCH --time=7-00:00:00

12 128 745GB AMD Genoa L4 4 24GB 8.9 11.8 gpu_p, gpu_30d_p Need to request --gres=gpu:L4, e.g.,

#SBATCH --partition=gpu_p

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:L4:1

#SBATCH --time=7-00:00:00

2 32 192GB Intel Skylake P100 1 16GB 6.0 8.0 gpu_p, gpu_30d_p Need to request --gres=gpu:P100, e.g.,

#SBATCH --partition=gpu_p

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:P100:1

#SBATCH --time=7-00:00:00

1 64 1TB AMD Milan A100 4 80GB 8.0 11.0 buyin partition Available on batch for all users up to 4 hours, e.g.,

#SBATCH --partition=batch

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:A100:1 or

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:L4:1 or

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:V100:1 or

#SBATCH --gres=gpu:V100S:1

#SBATCH --time=4:00:00

2 64 745GB AMD Genoa L4 4 24GB 8.9 11.8 buyin partition
2 28 192GB Intel Skylake V100 1 16GB 7.0 9.0 buyin partition
2 32 192GB Intel Skylake V100 1 16GB 7.0 9.0 buyin partition
2 32 384GB Intel Skylake V100 1 32GB 7.0 9.0 buyin partition
2 64 128GB AMD Naples V100 2 32GB 7.0 9.0 buyin partition
1 64 128GB AMD Naples V100 1 32GB 7.0 9.0 buyin partition
4 64 128GB AMD Rome V100S 1 32GB 7.0 9.0 buyin partition

Note:

1. The GPU compute capability of a device, also sometimes called its “SM version”, identifies the features supported by the GPU hardware. For more information, please see NVIDIA compute capability

Software

Sapelo2 has several tools for GPU programming and many CUDA-enabled applications. For example:

1. NVIDIA CUDA toolkit

Several versions of the CUDA toolkit are available. Please see our CUDA page.

2. cuDNN

The NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN) is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks.

To see all modules of cuDNN installed on Sapelo2, please use the command 

ml spider cuDNN

3. NCCL

The NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) implements multi-GPU and multi-node collective communication primitives that are performance optimized for NVIDIA GPUs.

To see all modules of cuDNN installed on Sapelo2, please use the command 

ml spider NCCL

4. OpenACC

Using the NVIDIA HPC SDK compiler suite, provided by the NVHPC module on Sapelo2, programmers can accelerate applications on x64+accelerator platforms by adding OpenACC compiler directives to Fortran and C programs and then recompiling with appropriate compiler options. Please see https://developer.nvidia.com/hpc-sdk and http://www.pgroup.com/resources/accel.htm

OpenACC is also supported by GNU compilers, especially the latest versions, e.g. GNU 7.2.0, installed on Sapelo2. For more information on OpenACC support by GNU compilers, please refer to https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OpenACC

For information on versions of compilers installed on Sapelo2, please see Code Compilation on Sapelo2.

5. CUDA-enabled applications

CUDA-enabled applications typically have a version suffix in the module name to indicate the version of CUDA that they were built with.

New modules that are being installed centrally using CUDA versions 12.1.1 or higher will include support for GPU compute capability up to 9.0. Some examples are:

  • PyTorch/2.1.2-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1 (note that this version uses the foss-2023a toolchain)
  • GROMACS/2023.3-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1-PLUMED-2.9.0
  • GROMACS/2023.4-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1
  • magma/2.7.2-foss-2023a-CUDA-12.1.1
  • NCCL/2.18.3-GCCcore-12.3.0-CUDA-12.1.1

Software modules not supported on the H100 and L4 nodes

Some modules that use CUDA 12.1.1 were installed before the H100 and L4 devices were added to the cluster and these only have support for GPU compute capability up to 8.0. Modules that do not work on the H100 and the L4 nodes include:

  • module that use CUDA versions below 11.8.0
  • PyTorch/2.1.2-foss-2022a-CUDA-12.1.1.lua (note that this version uses the foss-2022a toolchain)
  • transformers/4.41.2-foss-2022a-PyTorch-2.1.2-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • transformers/4.37.0-foss-2022a-PyTorch-2.1.2-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • controlnet-aux/0.0.7-foss-2022a-PyTorch-2.1.2-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • diffusers/0.25.1-foss-2022a-PyTorch-2.1.2-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • torchvision/0.16.2-foss-2022a-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • bitsandbytes/0.42.0-foss-2022a-PyTorch-2.1.2-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • accelerate/0.26.1-foss-2022a-PyTorch-2.1.2-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • timm/0.9.12-foss-2022a-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • flash-attn/2.5.9.post1-foss-2022a-PyTorch-2.1.2-CUDA-12.1.1.lua
  • magma/2.7.2-foss-2022a-CUDA-12.1.1
  • NCCL/2.18.3-GCCcore-11.3.0-CUDA-12.1.1

Running Jobs

For information on how to run GPU jobs on Sapelo2, please refer to Running Jobs on Sapelo2.

Important notes:

1. If a job requests 

#SBATCH --partition=gpu_p
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:1

then it can get allocated any GPU device type (i.e. P100, A100, L4, or H100). If you opt for requesting a GPU device without specifying its type, please make sure that the application or code you are running works on all device types.

2. If the application that you are running uses an older version of CUDA, for example CUDA/11.4.1 or CUDA/11.7.0, please request an explicit GPU device that supports the CUDA version. For example, request an A100 device with 

#SBATCH --partition=gpu_p
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:A100:1

3. If the application or code that you are running does not need double precision operations, and it does not need over 24GB of GPU device memory, you could get a faster job throughput by running it on an L4 device, which can be requested with 

#SBATCH --partition=gpu_p
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:L4:1
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