Lovelace Cluster Public Documentation

Welcome to the University of Plymouth’s Public Documentation on High Performance Compute and the Lovelace cluster. This information on this site is shared with the intention of being useful to all HPC users. See the link below for the Internal Documentation site.

Contents:

• Login and access the internal site
• Introduction
  • Acknowledging the Lovelace Cluster
  • Getting help
  • Training
  • Hardware
• HPC system policy
  • HPC Usage Policy
  • HPC account suspension
  • Acknowledging Lovelace in Publications
  • Allocation policy
• HPC Support Drop-In Sessions
• Accessing Compute Resources
  • Using Slurm
  • Queues
  • Time Limits
  • Accounts
  • Output from Slurm jobs
  • Examples of Job Submission Scripts
  • Submitting Interactive Jobs
• Accessing Software with Modules
  • Using the modules environment
  • Available Compiler Suites
  • Compiling MPI codes
  • Compiler Information and Options
  • Spack Modules
  • Software Requests
• Data Storage on the Lovelace Cluster
  • Performance Notes
• Data Transfer Guide
  • scp command
  • rsync command
• Running Graphical Applications With X11 Forwarding
  • Slurm X11 Forwarding
• Projects
  • Adding Users To Your Project
• GNU Parallel
• Available Software
  • Python
  • NVIDIA® CUDA® Toolkit
  • MATLAB
  • GROMACS
  • Ansys
  • OpenFOAM
• Containerisation
  • Singularity
  • Podman
  • Running Containerised MPI Workloads with Slurm
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Ollama
• Virtualisation
  • Windows 11 (Bring Your Own Licence)