Welcome to GAIVI's Documentation!

This project brings together investigators with research thrusts in several core disciplines of computer science and engineering: big datamanagement, scientific computing, system security, hardware design, data mining, computer vision and pattern recognition. GAIVI can accelerate existing research and enable ground-breaking new research that shares the common theme of massive parallel computing at USF.

• Notice About Preemption

• General Information
  • Request to use GAIVI
  • Login information
  • Priority and Contributions
  • System information

• User manual
  • Quickstart
  • Job Submission
  • Data Storage
  • Working Environment
  • Jupyterhub
  • Workshop Recordings

• Discussions
  • Common Bugs
  • Suggestions

• Share your experience (e.g. how to configure IBM Federated Learning on GAIVI)
  • List of how-to's from all users
  • Instructions to create a new page

GAIVI has job preemption and restarting enabled. This means that submitted compute jobs can be interrupted (effectively, cancelled), returned to the queue, and restarted if the hardware the job is using is needed by a higher priority job. When a job is preempted it has 5 minutes of grace time to clean up. Specifically, the job will receive a SIGTERM immediately and a SIGKILL 5 minutes later. This means your job should be prepared to gracefully exit within 5 minutes of receiving a SIGTERM at any time. Correspondingly, if you are trying to preempt a job please be prepared to wait up to 5 minutes for the preemption to take effect. We recommend most jobs be submitted as sbatch scripts and checkpoint regularly. If your job cannot work within these restrictions we do have a nopreempt partition, where jobs are safe from preemption, but it only includes a small handful of nodes.

Please create a request by filling out this form. A valid USF NetID is required; it will be your username for login. If you are a USF student, please also include your supervisor in the request; we will need their approval to proceed.

First, please connect to USF VPN. You can use any ssh client to connect as you wish. Login information is as follows.

• Host name: gaivi.cse.usf.edu
• User name: your NetID
• Password: your NetID Password

GAIVI offers higher submission priority to teams which have significantly contributed to the development of the cluster. A significant hardware contribution should be worth at least $25k, a standard example being a whole compute node with current Nvidia GPU(s). The contributor gains several benefits during the active contribution period, equivalent to the warraty period of the node plus one additional year, these benefits are 1) high priority on jobs sent to the contributed node, 2) access to the Contributors partition, which can submit jobs to all nodes in the cluster at a higher priority level than regular users, and 3) cooling, redundant power, security, and regular maintenance during the active period of the contribution. A year after the warranty period ends the node will be moved to the general partition for all gaivi users to use. For more details on gaivi's partitions see the user manual.