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What is SULIS?

Coventry University entered into an equipment bid with the Midlands+ group of Universities for a Tier 2 HPC cluster. This bid was successful, and the new cluster, called SULIS, is due to go into production. As one of the consortium in the bid, we have an allocation of core hours and GPU hours on the cluster. The cluster consists of 25,216 AMD EPYC compute cores configured as 167 dual processor CPU compute nodes plus 30 nodes equipped with three Nvidia A100 40GB GPUs. The cluster has a proportion of time reserved for the EPSRC to allocate outside the consortium, but consortium members are also allowed to bid for the EPSRC allocated time.

SULIS will be going live on Monday 1st November and we are now inviting expressions of interest. Please find a link to a form, in order to indicate your interest in using the cluster, the time required on the cluster and proposed usage here - https://forms.office.com/r/WKpfznnJte

If you have any queries please email HPC.MPCS@coventry.ac.uk

How to get access to SULIS

  1. Create your personal account on SAFE using your CU credentials. See guides here: https://sulis-hpc.github.io/gettingstarted/. For public ssh key, you can use your personal public ssh-key from any machine in Coventry University subnet (e.g. HPC or your office computer). Access to SULIS is restricted to external IP address range of Coventry University, so you will not be able to login to SULIS from your own home computer directly.
  2. Once you have valid SAFE account you can request to join a project. For Coventry University the project code for SULIS is su003.
  3. Afterwards, when your request is approved, you will be able to login to sulis login node login.sulis.ac.uk via ssh. See https://sulis-hpc.github.io/gettingstarted/connecting/firsttime.html for details. On first successful login you will be given QR code for 2-Factor-Authentication (2FA), for which you can use Microsoft of Google authenticator app. It is advised that you take a backup photo of the provided QR code and record all recovery codes which will be shown there. In the case e.g. you loose access to your Authenticator app, you will need this info to recover your access.
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