Large Memory Nodes on Oscar

Users can check the nodes in a partition using this command nodes bigmem . As of March 2020 the Oscar cluster currently has following nodes in bigmem partition.

    NODES CORES  CPU/NODE    MEM     Features                  PARTITION
    2     64     2-cores     2096GB  32core,intel,cascade,edr  bigmem
    8     256    32-cores    376GB   32core,intel,cascade,edr  bigmem
    2     64     32-cores    754GB   32core,intel,cascade,edr  bigmem 

To submit batch jobs to large memory nodes, include the following in your batch script:

#SBATCH -p bigmem

To run an interactive job on large memory node, launch the interact command with the following flag:

$ interact -q bigmem

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