OSCfinger
Introduction
OSCfinger is a command developed at OSC for use on OSC's systems and is similar to the standard finger command. It allows various account information to be viewed.
HPC
Batch Limit Rules
Pitzer includes two types of processors, Intel® Xeon® 'Skylake' processor and Intel® Xeon® 'Cascade Lake' processor. This document provides you information on how to request resources based on the requirements of # of cores, memory, etc despite the heterogeneous nature of the Pitzer cluster. Therefore, in some cases, your job can land on either type of processor. Please check guidance on requesting resources on pitzer for your job to obtain a certain type of processor on Pitzer.
Proposed OSC Policies for Public Comments
This page lists all proposed OSC policies for public comments. Your comments help inform our policies and are encouraged. We will provide the response to comments on this webpage after the public comment period closes. Please submit your comments via our online form by the deadline.
Overview of File Systems
OSC has several different file systems where you can create files and directories. The characteristics of those systems and the policies associated with them determine their suitability for any particular purpose. This section describes the characteristics and policies that you should take into consideration in selecting a file system to use.
The various file systems are described in subsequent sections.
Technical Specifications
The following are technical specifications for Owens.
- Number of Nodes
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824 nodes
- Number of CPU Sockets
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1,648 (2 sockets/node)
- Number of CPU Cores
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23,392 (28 cores/node)
- Cores Per Node
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28 cores/node (48 cores/node for Huge Mem Nodes)
- Local Disk Space Per Node
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~1,500GB in /tmp
Owens Programming Environment
Compilers
C, C++ and Fortran are supported on the Owens cluster. Intel, PGI and GNU compiler suites are available. The Intel development tool chain is loaded by default. Compiler commands and recommended options for serial programs are listed in the table below. See also our compilation guide.
2016 Storage Service Upgrades
On July 12th, 2016 OSC migrated its old GPFS and Lustre filesystems to new Project and Scratch services, respectively. We've moved 1.22 PB of data, and the new capacities are 3.4 PB for Project, and 1.1 PB for Scratch. If you store data on these services, there are a few important details to note.
Citation
For more information about citations of OSC, visit https://www.osc.edu/citation.
To cite Owens, please use the following Archival Resource Key:
ark:/19495/hpc6h5b1
Please adjust this citation to fit the citation style guidelines required.
Ohio Supercomputer Center. 2016. Owens Supercomputer. Columbus, OH: Ohio Supercomputer Center. http://osc.edu/ark:19495/hpc6h5b1
Here is the citation in BibTeX format:
Messages from sbatch
sbatch messages
shell warning
Submitting a job without specifying the proper shell will return a warning like below:
sbatch: WARNING: Job script lacks first line beginning with #! shell. Injecting '#!/bin/bash' as first line of job script.
Errors
If an error is encountered, the job is rejected.
Not specifying a project account
It is required to specify an account for a job to run. Please use the --account=<project-code> option to do this.
Owens
As of Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, the Owens high performance computing (HPC) cluster has been partially decommissioned. OSC has moved two-thirds of the regular compute nodes and one-half of the GPU nodes (a total of about 60% of the cluster cores) on the Owens cluster offline. The remainder of the Owens nodes will power down on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.
TIP: Remember to check the menu to the right of the page for related pages with more information about Owens' specifics.
OSC's Owens cluster being installed in 2016 is a Dell-built, Intel® Xeon® processor-based supercomputer.
