Computing with GPUs

Requesting GPUs

GPUs are requested via the GRES option:

sbatch --gres=gpu ...

Request multiple GPUs with:

sbatch --gres=gpu:2

At this time we have one GPU per node.

Nodes with GPUs

Location	Partition	Node Name	GPU
FHCRC	campus-new	j	NVIDIA
FHCRC	campus-new	k	NVIDIA

Using GPUs

When your job is assigned a GPU, Slurm sets the environment variable CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES. This environment variable indicates the assigned GPU- most CUDA tools (e.g. tensorflow) use this to restrict execution to that device.