NOTICE: Multi-factor authentication (MFA) with Duo is still required to access the cluster via Open OnDemand. DO NOT delete your Duo application if you wish to continue to use SSH or the terminal in Open OnDemand. If you are new to HPC, please ensure you have a device enrolled in Duo for MFA. Follow the steps in this knowledge article to enroll your device. |
Great Lakes is a campus-wide HPC cluster designed to meet the diverse needs of researchers across the university. It supports a variety of applications, including simulation, modeling, machine learning, data science, genomics, and more. The platform offers a well-balanced mix of computing power, I/O performance, storage capability, and GPUs. It utilizes Slurm as its workload manager, enabling users to work interactively or submit batch jobs.
To access this cluster, you must have a login and a Slurm account to submit jobs. Many researchers can use the U-M Research Computing Package to obtain a Slurm account for no cost, which provides 80,000 CPU hours of high-performance computing that can be allocated between the Great Lakes and/or Armis clusters.
There are three ways to interact with this cluster:
- Open On Demand — a web-based portal designed primarily for interactive work, with applications for Jupyter Notebooks, R Studio, Matlab, and more
- Command Line — Linux-based login nodes, where you can manage your files, submit and monitor your jobs
- Globus transfer — a high speed file transfer and management service
- Slurm User Guide - a guide to how the cluster manages jobs