Temple HPC Facility Configuration

Resources

• 16 CPU cores and
• 512GB of RAM, and
• 4x NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs interconnected with NVlink2.
• VRAM for each GPU is 16, totaling 16x4 VRAM
• Accessible from anywhere via SSH

Application Process

To gain access to the High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources provided by Temple University, you can follow these steps:

• Visit the HPC website at https://www.hpc.temple.edu/.
• Choose the appropriate option based on your needs, such as machine learning, computing, or owl nest. Each option offers different features and criteria.
• Click on "Request Access."
• Specify your requirements, including your field, a description of your project, resource requirements, required software, and your supervisor's name.
• Read and agree to the terms and conditions.
• After submitting your request, your documents will be reviewed, and you should receive access within 2 to 3 business days.

How to access it from your computer?

• Access via vscode:

  • The best way I found to access HPC is from VS code.
  • Install an extension called “Remote- SSH”
  • Click on the Remote- SSH extension and write-

  ssh [email protected]
  

• Access via Jupyter Nodebook:

  • From the VSCode terminal create: python3 -m venv env (In the base environment, you don’t have any access to install any package. You need to create a new environment.)
  • To install Anaconda write the command: :

  wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2020.07-Linux-x86_64.sh
  

  bash Anaconda3-2020.07-Linux-x86_64.sh
  

  • To install jupyer notebook write the command (it will take time to fix some dependencies):

  conda install jupyter notebook
  

  • If you want to run the jupyter notebook write cmd:
  • Copy the token (ex: http://127.0.0.1:8889/?token=22dd2ab63c90249bf4fa3da5ba468f5ceb034f64ff04) and paste in your browser. Here you go!!

Accessing HPC computer WITHOUT passward:

• On your Mac or Linux PC, open up your terminal and run the following command (unless you already have an .ssh/config file.)

  touch ~/.ssh/config
  

• you will see files in your .ssh folder. E.g: config, id_rsa, id_rsa.pub

• Use nano or any text editor you prefer to copy and paste the following in the config file. Of course replace your User name with your AccessNet name.

  Host Temple-GPU-4
  # ssh [email protected]
  HostName 129.32.84.168
  User tuq24452
  Port 22
  

• Create SSH Key in your local computer and add it to each server's id_rsa file.

  • This cmd will create new key:

    ssh-keygen
    

  • Then press enter to save the key into id_rsa.pub

• Here we go. We don't need to put passward each time.

Written by:

Rahad Arman Nabid