diff --git a/source/leuven/services/openondemand.rst b/source/leuven/services/openondemand.rst index 45b00f76..6fc90965 100644 --- a/source/leuven/services/openondemand.rst +++ b/source/leuven/services/openondemand.rst @@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ To enter the Templates menu, you can click on 'Templates' at the top once you ar Job'-'From Template'. Once in this menu, you should see a table with 3 System Templates. The resources that are requested in these scripts are the default settings. The templates: -- CPU job template: a template for jobs on the thin nodes (the default `batch` partition). This is also the default template (which you will get when clicking 'From Default Template' under the 'New Job' button in the 'Jobs' menu). -- GPU job template: a template for jobs with GPU resources (`gpu` partition) -- Big memory CPU jobs: a template for jobs with large memory requirements (`bigmem` partition) +- CPU job template: a template for jobs on the thin nodes (the default ``batch`` partition). This is also the default template (which you will get when clicking 'From Default Template' under the 'New Job' button in the 'Jobs' menu). +- GPU job template: a template for jobs with GPU resources (``gpu`` partition) +- Big memory CPU jobs: a template for jobs with large memory requirements (``bigmem`` partition) You can create your own templates from scratch or by copying one of the existing templates. In both cases you will be redirected to a page where you can provide a @@ -164,11 +164,11 @@ explained in the specific paragraph about the app. A general overview of the oth is available in the next chapter. - Account: the credit account you want to deduct the credits from. The accounts associated with your VSC number will be displayed in a dropdown. -- Partition: you can choose any of the existing partitions on both clusters. We recommend using the ``interactive`` partition for most interactive work on wICE. Be aware that this partition is not available on Genius. There it is recommended to just request the regular `batch` partition. +- Partition: you can choose any of the existing partitions on both clusters. We recommend using the ``interactive`` partition for most interactive work on wICE. Be aware that this partition is not available on Genius. There it is recommended to just request the regular ``batch` partition. - Numbers of hours: your walltime (min 1h). - Number of cores: the amount of cores per node. This defaults to 1. - Required memory per core in megabytes. This defaults to 3400 MB. -- Number of GPUs. If you request a GPU of the `gpu` partition you will get a full A100 GPU. For the `interactive` partition, every GPU is a virtual GPU slice of the available A100 GPUs. One GPU is the same as 1/7th of a A100 GPU. The default is 0. You can specify the type of GPU as well: [Type]: (e.g. A100:2). You can also just request a number of GPUs as . Then you will be appointed the first available GPU types. In practice, both methods are the same for now. This might change if we would decide to add extra GPU types. **The interactive partition only allows you to request max 1 GPU (slice) though.** +- Number of GPUs. If you request a GPU of the ``gpu`` partition you will get a full A100 GPU. For the ``interactive`` partition, every GPU is a virtual GPU slice of the available A100 GPUs. One GPU is the same as 1/7th of a A100 GPU. The default is 0. You can specify the type of GPU as well: [Type]: (e.g. A100:2). You can also just request a number of GPUs as . Then you will be appointed the first available GPU types. In practice, both methods are the same for now. This might change if we would decide to add extra GPU types. **The interactive partition only allows you to request max 1 GPU (slice) though.** - Reservation: if you are part of a reservation, you can also use these nodes with Open Ondemand by specifying your reservation name here. - Pre-run scriptlet: this allows you to add bash commands to your job before launching the app. This can be used for example for loading extra modules that you need within the app. **Be aware that this feature is still somewhat experimental, and its functionality also depends on the app you are running (mainly RStudio Server has some issues here). If you would like to use this feature, but you run into problems, please contact our helpdesk.** @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Choosing your resources Choosing the correct resources for your interactive session is mostly the same as selecting them when launching regular batch jobs. For this reason we strongly recommend you to have a look at how to specify your resources both on `Genius `_ and `wICE `_. -As mentioned above, in most cases we recommend using the `interactive` partition on wICE for your interactive apps. This partition is meant for lighter work, like +As mentioned above, in most cases we recommend using the ``interactive`` partition on wICE for your interactive apps. This partition is meant for lighter work, like visualisations, testing and pre- and postprocessing. Using this partition is also free, mainly to encourage you to request these resources for such work, instead of using any of the other partitions. There are however some limitations on the amount of resources you can request here: