NI Cluster

Mind Cluster: General information, policies, procedures, and help for the Neuroscience Institute (NI), High Performance Computing (HPC) computer cluster.

Cluster Policies

It is critical that our cluster users and their principle investigators understand these policies before using these resources.
Getting Started

Apply for an account on the cluster and learn how to connect to the cluster.
Software

Data Management

As a user, you should be familiar with various volumes on the cluster. The first three (3) volumes below are...
File and Directory Permissions

This article was contributed by: Nicholas M. Blauch Ph.D. Student, Program in Neural Computation Center for the Neural Basis of...
Maintaining Connections

When uses log onto remote severs as they do with the MIND cluster, often there are instances where they would...
Mind Cluster Nodes

Rack #1 (Protected with UPS) Legacy Name Mind Name # of CPUs Cores/CPU Total Memory (GB) Queue Gpu Cards SSD...
Monitoring Nodes

The Ganglia monitoring system interface is located at http://mind-cluster.cs.cmu.edu/ganglia/ This monitoring system maintains a real-time snapshot of the workload on...
SLURM Scheduler

All compute node job scheduling uses SLURM on the mind cluster. All job requests are done from the headnode. Rosetta...
SLURM Scheduler – Job Priority and Wait Time

This article will help you understand the factors SLURM uses to set the priority of your job(s) and ultimately help...
Triton and CUDA Compatibility

Triton Triton is a deep learning framework and a compiler developed by OpenAI. Its primary goal is to enable the...

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