Welcome on UNIGE's High Performance Computing (HPC) Baobab service documentation. You will find here all the information you need to use the unige's clusters Baobab, Yggdrasil, Bamboo and get started.
In the documentation, when we talk about Baobab we may refer as the HPC service or one of our cluster.. Baobab.
Before accessing our HPC clusters, you need to :
Have an account - if you don't have one yet, request an account
here.
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title HPC Roadmap (Baobab)
dateFormat 2025-01-01
section Maintenance
section Maintenance
February 2025 18-21: M1, 2025-02-18, 3d
May 2025 18-21: M2, 2025-05-18, 3d
June 2025 03-05: M3, 2025-06-03, 3d
September 2025 09-12: M4, 2025-09-09, 3d
section Data Retention Policy
Analyze feedbacks :B0, 2025-03-17, 30d
Deploy on Baobab :B1, after B0 , 30d
Deleted old files - 1 year :B2, after B1 , 31d
Deleted old files - 6 month :B3, after B2 , 31d
Deleted old files - 3 month :B4, after B3 , 31d
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title HPC Roadmap (Yggdrasil)
dateFormat 2025-01-01
section Maintenance
May 2025 06-09: M1, 2025-05-06, 3d
July 2025 29-31: M2, 2025-07-29, 3d
section Data Retention Policy
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title HPC Roadmap (Bamboo)
dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
section Maintenance
March 2025 25-27: M1, 2025-03-25, 3d
June 2025 17-20: M2, 2025-06-17, 3d
October 2025 07-10: M3, 2025-10-07, 3d
section Data Retention Policy
Forum/Community (mandatory for non-private requests): The
HPC community forum is the required platform for asking questions if you didn't find a solution here. The forum is quite active and is the best way to ask for help, share, or discuss with the community.
Please use the
Support>issue category and follow the template for any problems you encounter.
HPC-Lunch : First Thursday of each months, you can join our zoom session to discuss with us about HPC. More
here
Contact the HPC team by email
README CAREFULY
WELL WELL WELL, if you read this message is that you have run out all available documentation ressources, isn't it ?
That is to say:
You have googled your issue and found nothing
You have read or search in the official documentation (slurm/linux centos|redhat/etc…)and found nothing
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You have read or search in the Unige HPC documenation, and guess what ? nothing neither
You have a specific request

Here he is! You are The one and only winner of the Gemini Croquette Contest,
and earn the righ to contact the HPC-team. what luck!
You can contact the HPC team by email :
When you reach out for help, we always do our best to get back to you as soon as possible, but please bear in mind that :
Hundreds of other people use our clusters and almost each of you use some special combination of softwares (compilers, libraries, using specific version, etc.). We don't have experts for each software.
The best way to get help quickly is to read this documentation or search/post on
HPC community forum.
<Hello formula >
Username: $USER
Cluster: $CLUSTER
Subject: <slurm|software|system|connexion| (an explanatory keyword) >
jobid: <separate by space if you have more than one>
<
<Here the mail body explaining ans describing everething with the MAXIMUM details. the MAXIMUM!>
- Explain us your experience like we were newbies.
we don't spy your work so we don't know what is going wrong :/
- Explain the purpose of your mind, sometimes what we want is not what we think/do/are doing.
- Give us the command you executed, your sbatch, and all relevant informations
- Give us the path to the relevant files in Baobab (sbatch, error logs, etc.) and/or add them as attachments.
>
<Respect formula (it's always appreciated)>
<Bye Bye formula>
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$USER
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