User documentation for the PLEIADES cluster at the University of Wuppertal
Our monitoring service can be accessed at zabbix.pleiades.uni-wuppertal.de with the credentials “pleiades” and “pleiades”. Zabbix collects various information regarding current and past resource usage and quotas.
After login you are typically greeted by the user dashboard:
There are also multiple sub-pages available, covering an overview and login-node-specific metrics:
The overview dashboard presents aggregated metrics and you can select the time frame of presented information on the top right. The visible widgets are:
More detailed pages about each class of login nodes provide information about:
You can change the displayed dashboard through Monitoring > Dashboard > All dashboards > User dashboard
:
All available user dashboards are:
Another dashboard shows detailed information of all five gpu nodes, gpu2100[1-5]
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You can select separate pages for each gpu node, which provide detailed information:
These pages can help you answer questions like:
If you know which GPUs your job is using, or if you use a whole node exclusively, this approach can help to assess your software performance.