Cluster: BGSC
Also known as the "Blugold Supercomputing Cluster", BGSC is the original general-purpose cluster at UW-Eau Claire. Funded by the Blugold Differential Tuition in 2013, and extended through purchases of hardware by individual faculty members, this cluster was the first system opened to all faculty, staff, and students at UW-Eau Claire.
This cluster is now only used for smaller single-node (serial) jobs, smaller research projects, and classrooms.
Are you looking to transition from BGSC to BOSE?
How To Connect
Off Campus?
If you are not on campus, you'll need to first connect to the UW-Eau Claire VPN before you can access our computing resources.
SSH / SFTP / SCP - Command Line
| Hostname | bgsc.hpc.uwec.edu |
| Port | 22 |
| Username | Your UW-Eau Claire username - all lowercase |
| Password | Your UW-Eau Claire password |
Hardware Specs
Overall Specs
| Hardware Overview | # w/ Slurm | # Total* |
|---|---|---|
| # of Nodes | 20 | 27 |
| CPU Cores | 404 | 452 |
| GPU Cores | 22,952 | 29,952 |
| Memory | 1.32 TB | 1.43 TB |
| Network Scratch | 11 TB | 11 TB |
*Note: BGSC has some nodes that are not available through the normal job submission process via Slurm and require special access. We listed the specs here for completeness.
Node Specs
| Node Name | CPU Model | CPU Cores (Total) | CPU Clock (Base) | Memory (Slurm) | Local Scratch | Slurm? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compute[29-33] compute[35-36] |
Intel Xeon E5430 (x2) | 8 | 2.66 GHz | 16 GB | 125 TB | No |
| compute[37-40] | Intel Xeon X5450 (x2) | 12 | 2.67 GHz | 24 GB | 450 GB | Yes |
| compute[58-70] | Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (x2) | 20 | 2.5 GHz | 80 GB | 900 GB | Yes |
| compute[71-73] | Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 (x2) | 32 | 2.1 GHz | 60 GB | 100 GB | Yes |
Graphic Cards
We have three nodes containing four NVIDIA Telsa K20m graphic cards 5 GB under the "GPU" partition.
Slurm Partitions
| Name | # of Nodes | Max Time Limit | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| week | 9 | 7 days | General use partiton. It should be used when your job will take less than a week, or if you can restart your job to continue running it from a checkpoint. This partition is highly recommended for most jobs. |
| batch | 12 | 30 days | General use partition for longer-length jobs that need to run up to a month. |
| GPU | 3 | 7 days | Partition that uses exclusively nodes that contain GPUs, only to be used when GPUs are required for your job. |
| extended | 4 | 104 days | Special partiton for longer-length jobs that need to run up to 104 days. This partition is extremely limited in availability. |
| scavenge | 19 | 5 days | Low-priority partition available on all nodes, but jobs may be requeued if resources are needed by a job on another partition. |
Acknowledgement
We request that you support our group by crediting us with the following message in your papers whenever using the BGSC supercomputing cluster for your research.
The computational resources of the study were provided by the Blugold Center for High-Performance Computing.