Migrating jobs from other clusters

This page includes a summary of differences to keep in mind when migrating jobs from other clusters to Pitzer. 

Guidance for Oakley Users

The Oakley cluster is removed from service on December 18, 2018. 

Guidance for Owens Users

Hardware Specifications

  pitzer (PER NODE) owens (PER NODE)
Regular compute node

40 cores and 192GB of RAM

48 cores and 192GB of RAM

28 cores and 125GB of RAM
Huge memory node

48 cores and 768GB of RAM

(12 nodes in this class)

80 cores and 3.0 TB of RAM

(4 nodes in this class)

48 cores and 1.5TB of RAM

(16 nodes in this class)

File Systems

Pitzer accesses the same OSC mass storage environment as our other clusters. Therefore, users have the same home directory, project space, and scratch space as on the Owens cluster.

Software Environment

Pitzer uses the same module system as Owens.

Use   module load <package to add a software package to your environment. Use   module list   to see what modules are currently loaded and  module avail   to see the modules that are available to load. To search for modules that may not be visible due to dependencies or conflicts, use   module spider 

You can keep up to on the software packages that have been made available on Pitzer by viewing the Software by System page and selecting the Pitzer system.

Programming Environment

Like Owens, Pitzer supports three compilers: Intel, PGI, and gnu. The default is Intel. To switch to a different compiler, use  module swap intel gnu  or  module swap intel pgi

Pitzer also use the MVAPICH2 implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), optimized for the high-speed Infiniband interconnect and support the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX2) instruction set.

See the Pitzer Programming Environment page for details. 

Accounting

Below is a comparison of job limits between Pitzer and Owens:

  PItzer Owens
Per User Up to 256 concurrently running jobs and/or up to 3240 processors/cores in use  Up to 256 concurrently running jobs and/or up to 3080 processors/cores in use
Per group Up to 384 concurrently running jobs and/or up to 3240 processors/cores in use Up to 384 concurrently running jobs and/or up to 4620 processors/cores in use

Please see Queues and Reservations for Pitzer and Batch Limit Rules for more details.

Guidance for Ruby Users

The Ruby cluster is removed from service on October 29, 2020. 
Supercomputer: 
Service: