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Grid Engine キューの種類

This is an outdated document

This document pertains to the former NIG Supercomputer (2019) and is retained for reference purposes only.

Please note that it does not reflect the behavior or configuration of the current NIG Supercomputer (2025).

Nodes managed by Grid Engine are broadly categorized into interactive nodes and compute nodes.

  • Interactive nodes are computing systems intended for users to develop programs or run small-scale, short-duration computations interactively.
  • Compute nodes are designed for long-duration or resource-intensive computations that require a large number of CPUs or significant memory.

In both interactive and compute nodes, computational requests (referred to as jobs) are managed using queues in Grid Engine. When the total demand for computing resources exceeds the available capacity, jobs are held in queues and automatically executed by Grid Engine once resources become available.

In the general-purpose section of the NIG Supercomputer, a dedicated Grid Engine queue is configured for each type of compute node.

Node TypeGrid Engine Queue NameHardware TypeNumber of Nodes / Total Cores
Interactive Nodeslogin.q

Thin Node Type1b
(AMD EPYC7702, 128 CPU cores per node,
4GB memory per CPU core)

3 nodes / 384 cores
login_gpu.q

Thin Node Type2b
(Intel Xeon Gold 6136, 24 CPU cores per node,
16GB memory per CPU core)

1 node / 24 cores
Compute Nodesepyc.q

Thin Node Type1b
(AMD EPYC7702, 128 CPU cores per node,
4GB memory per CPU core)

25 nodes / 3200 cores
intel.q

Thin Node Type2a
(Intel Xeon Gold 6130, 32 CPU cores per node,
12GB memory per CPU core)

32 nodes / 1024 cores
gpu.q

Thin Node Type2b
(Intel Xeon Gold 6136, 24 CPU cores per node,
16GB memory per CPU core)

7 nodes / 168 cores
short.q

Thin Node Type1a
(AMD EPYC7501, 64 CPU cores per node,
8GB memory per CPU core)

2 nodes / 128 cores
medium.q

Medium Node
(Intel Xeon Gold 6148, 80 CPU cores per node,
38.4GB memory per CPU core)

10 nodes / 800 cores
medium-ubuntu.q