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Welcome To Viper!
Viper is the University of Hull's supercomputer in 2024 , often termed an HPC (or High-Performance Computer).
It is located on-site with a dedicated team to operate Viper and support users.
- New user with no knowledge of Viper
- New user who already knows what Viper is
- Existing user looking for further information?
- Are you a DAIM MSc student needing to use Viper for your project?
- Need support?
A supercomputer has a much higher processing power than a general-purpose computer. Viper is composed of:
- 180 compute nodes, each with 28 processing cores and 128GB of memory
- 4 high memory nodes with 1TB of memory
- 5 GPU nodes with 3 Nvidia A100s, 4 A40s and a twin P100.
- 2 Visualisation nodes
Why is Viper useful?
- Many jobs can be run at once.
- These jobs can be split into tasks and run in parallel.
- Or these jobs can be run with many different scenarios in parallel.
- Using Viper frees up your personal computer.
- Viper has significant resources that your desktop computer does not.
Who might use Viper?
Viper is currently being used for:
- Astrophysics
- BioEngineering
- Business Analysis
- Computer Science
- Geographical research
- Artificial Intelligence
- And many more
Quickstart
New to Viper? - Here is a step-by-step guide to help you run your first job. Feel free to skip any topics you may already be comfortable with.
- What is Viper
- Apply for an account (Student portal)
- Getting Connected
- Linux command line
- Using Modules
- Interactive Sessions
- Slurm
- Batch Jobs
- Data Management
- Virtual Environments
- Tutorial Videos
Support
- User Drop-in Sessions are held every Wednesday from 09:30 to 10:30 am on Teams.
- There is a selection of Tutorial Videos to help get you started using Viper.
- In the Support Portal you can find forms to request VPN access, report an issue with a job, request a software install, and request a runtime extension.