EUROfusion

The community has access to the following CINECA HPC systems:

• Leonardo

  • Booster partition

  • DCGP partition

• Pitagora

Important

The general environment defined on our clusters is the same for all the users, so EUROfusion users are invited to refer to the general documentation. Essential links below.

For general information regarding the access to the HPC clusters:

• Getting Started

• Users and Accounts

• Access to the Systems

For general information regarding the environment on the HPC clusters:

• Introduction HPC Resources

• File Systems and Data Management

• Scheduler and Job Submission

• Environment and Customization

For specific information regarding the HPC clusters used by the EUROfusion community:

• Leonardo

• Pitagora

Dedicated tutorials

A presentation of each supercomputer, and of the access method via two-factor authentication (2FA), have been dedicated to the EUROfusion community. You can find the slides, including a report of the final Q&A session, and the recording at the following links (you should log in through the button Access as a guest).

Leonardo Booster: Introduction to Leonardo supercomputer for Eurofusion

June 6th, 2023

Leonardo Booster webinar page with slides and recording.

Leonardo Booster slides

Leonardo DCGP: Introduction to Leonardo DCGP for Eurofusion

February 18th, 2025

Leonardo DCGP webinar page with slides and recording.

Leonardo DCGP slides

2FA: Introduction to two-factor authentication (2FA) on CINECA HPC clusters

June 7th, 2023

2FA slides

SLURM Partitions

On Leonardo and Pitagora Job Managing and SLURM Partitions sections, you can find the description of SLURM partitions and QOS to submit your jobs. Notice that EUROfusion users have dedicated partitions and QOS: you are allowed to use the “_fua_” partitions and the related QOS, besides the “_all_serial” partition which is shared among all users.

Low-priority jobs

1. If all the budget assigned to your Project Account has been consumed, you can keep running on Leonardo boost_fua_prod and dcgp_fua_prod partitions at low priority by requesting in your submission script the qos_fualowprio QOS:

#SBATCH --account=<YOUR Project Account>
#SBATCH --qos=qos_fualowprio

The QOS is automatically added to your Project Account upon budget exhaustion.

2. You can also request to run low priority jobs, without having consumed all the budget of yout active Project Account, by association to the FUAL8_LOWPRIO account on Booster and FUA38_LOWPRIO_0 account on DCGP (write a mail to superc@cineca.it). You always need to specify also the qos_fualowprio QOS in your submission script.

#SBATCH --account=<LOWPRIO Project Account>
#SBATCH --qos=qos_fualowprio