DCS 2024 partition software and notes¶

The 'dcs-2024' partition was created to support a more modernized set of drivers and software for the DCS cluster.

All CCI users have access to the dcs-2024 partition by default.

Using the dcs-2024 partition¶

There are no front-end node with this software update. Use the “interactive” QoS to allocate a node on 'dcs-2024' for development, testing or compiling purposes.

Accessing the dcs-2024 partition:

Add "-p dcs-2024" to your salloc command
Specify "#SBATCH -p dcs-2024" in your sbatch script

Software available¶

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
Kernel: 4.18.0-372.41.1.el8_6.ppc64le
Nvidia GPU driver: is 535.104.05
Mellanox Infiniband driver(OFED): 4.9-6.0.6
CUDA: 11.0/11.1/11.2/11.8/12.1
Nvidia HPC SDK: 24.1
Spectrum MPI: 10.4.0.6
OpenMPI: Coming Soon (available via HPC SDK today)
GCC: Update coming soon

To load dcs-2024 CUDA versions:

module use /gpfs/u/software/dcs-2024/modulefiles

module use cuda/11.8
#or
module use cuda/12.1