Polyommatos Server

Polyommatos is a server that is shared between two research groups (Benjamin Peters and Mirella Lapata's) 4 GPUs belong to Ben's group and 2 to Mirella's both groups of researchers can use the other groups GPUs but they can be preempted at any point.

The server is in it's own partition in the ICF.
polyommatos up 5-00:00:00 1 idle polyommatos

so you will need to specify the correct partition.

To submit jobs you need to choose a qos (Quality of service) appropriate to your research group.

For Ben's group

Cluster networking

Networking in the cluster can sometimes be confusing as some aspects are configured differently to the rest of the Informatics network. This page will explain the configuration and how this interacts with accessing the cluster including using the VPNs.

The principle differences are:

  • cluster nodes are not accessible by SSH;
  • cluster nodes use RFC1918 addressing.

Personal Information Processor (PIP)

PIP is the School's central information management system. It holds and maintains data that's local to specific School needs and supplemental to central systems.

Although PIP is open to all University accounts, content is principally only made available to employees - although some specific modules also make content available to students. Further information is available from the Informatics Sharepoint Hub.

Chrome Remote Desktop

What it does

Google's Chrome Remote Desktop (or "CRD") is a way of sharing control of your remote DICE desktop session with somebody else. (Don't confuse it with our similarly named ⇒ remote desktop service.) We're using it to help facilitate group lab work, to help give participants some interaction and support when we can't provide these sessions face to face on campus.

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