Attention

WARNING: From 8am on 30th June until 5pm on 4th July 2025, there will be no access to the Stanage HPC cluster.

We will try to minimise this downtime and it is possible that Stanage will return to service before 4th July. We will notify you by email when Stanage is back online and available for job submission.

Department or research group-specific nodes in Bessemer

• GPU nodes (Computer Science)
• GPU nodes for specific Computer Science academics

Running Slurm batch jobs or interactive sessions on private nodes

To run Slurm jobs on private nodes you will need to specify at least one of:

• A Slurm Account

• A Slurm Partition

• A Slurm QoS (Quality of Service)

You will be told what to specify when you are granted access to the private nodes.

To start an interactive session on a private node you want something like the following:

srun --account=SOMEACCOUNT --partition=SOMEPARTITION --qos=SOMEQOS --pty /bin/bash -i

To submit a batch start that will run on private node(s) you want something like the following in your batch job submission script:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --account=SOMEACCOUNT
#SBATCH --partition=SOMEPARTITION
#SBATCH --qos=SOMEQOS