PLEIADES

User documentation for the PLEIADES cluster at the University of Wuppertal

Getting Started: Monitoring

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.

Dashboard

After login you are typically greeted by the user dashboard: Dashboard overview

There are also multiple sub-pages available, covering an overview and login-node-specific metrics: Dashboard overview

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:

Dashboard overview

All available user dashboards are:

Dashboard overview

GPU Dashboard

Another dashboard shows detailed information of all five gpu nodes, gpu2100[1-5]: Dashboard overview

You can select separate pages for each gpu node, which provide detailed information: Dashboard overview

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.