Welcome to the Viking Documentation!
Globus
Viking is a large, Linux compute cluster with many nodes, CPUs, GPUs, lots of storage and boat loads of memory. Viking is housed in Sweden (of course!) in the forward thinking EcoDataCentre, which is one of the most sustainable data centres in the whole world. 🌍🥰
Cluster Configuration
Compute node only CPU cores |
12,864 |
Total standard compute nodes |
134 |
Processor generation |
AMD EPYC3 7643 |
Cores per processor |
48 |
Number of processors per node |
2 |
Memory per compute node |
512 GB |
High memory node |
2x 2 TB |
High memory node |
1x 4 TB |
GPUs |
48x A40 |
Scratch |
1.5 PB |
Usable NVME storage |
215 TB |
Interconnect type |
100Gb OPA |
Check out the Quickstart section for a speedy guide to getting started or for a more in depth guide, start with the Creating an account page.
If you are brand new to using the Linux commands line then how about a quick tutorial from Ubuntu called The Linux command line for beginners or have a read of our own beginners guide to the Linux shell.
Hint
In the examples of the Viking command line which we show here they will all begin with the dollar symbol $, you don’t need to copy this it’s just there to help show you that it’s a command prompt we are describing. For example you’ll see things like this:
$ module spider Python