The Bede Facility

Bede is a new EPSRC-funded Tier 2 (regional) HPC cluster. It is currently being configured and tested and one of its first uses will be to support the hackathon.

This system is particularly well suited to supporting:

• Jobs that require multiple GPUs and possibly multiple nodes
• Jobs that require much movement of data between CPU and GPU memory

NB the system was previously known as NICE-19.

• Bede Hardware
• Getting an Account
• Connecting to the Bede HPC system
  • Connecting to Bede with SSH
  • Transferring files
• Filestores
• Running and Scheduling Tasks on Bede
  • Slurm Workload Manager
  • Loading Slurm
  • Request an Interactive Shell
  • Submitting Non-Interactive Jobs
  • Common job options
  • Key SLURM Scheduler Commands
• Activating software using Environment Modules
  • Overview and rationale
  • Basic guide
  • Module Command Reference
• Software on Bede
  • CUDA
  • MPI
  • Python and Anaconda
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow