ZestExamples

This repository provides code examples for regularly used applications within the Zest cluster. In addition to exploring these examples on the web you can use git to download them into your home directory on the cluster which will allow you to run them directly. The command is

git clone http://github.com/SyracuseUniversity/ZestExamples

Start here

• hostname: A simple example of submitting a job to the cluster, monitoring it, and checking its output.

Getting the most out of Zest

• Checkpointing: Learn how to save the state of long-running jobs so Slurm (or your application) can resume them where they left off if a node goes down, with worked examples for GROMACS and LAMMPS.

Using particular languages and libraries

• Python: Use Python and the mpi4py library to communicate between processes with MPI.
• MPI: Run a simple C-based MPI example that passes messages between processes in a ring.

GPU and specialized applications

• GPU: Submit a job to Zest's GPU partitions and confirm the GPU is visible to your job with nvidia-smi.
• GROMACS: Run a small GROMACS molecular dynamics job on Zest's GPU partitions.

Need Help?

Additional how-to documentation, such as connecting to the cluster and running jobs, is available at docs.syr.edu. If you would like to contact us directly for assistance or requesting access, email researchcomputing@syr.edu.