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Beehive Cluster User Guide

Welcome to the Beehive cluster, a high-performance computing environment with extensive GPU resources designed for machine learning and AI research at TTIC.

Cluster Overview

Beehive features a diverse collection of computing resources, with a focus on modern GPUs, including Blackwell, Ada and Ampere architecture cards (plus older Turing cards). The cluster has both general-access nodes and privately-owned resources.

Partitions

low-gpu - the same nodes and 8-hour limit as gpu, but with a lower priority (5 vs 500); use it for work that can wait behind regular gpu jobs. The full partition list is on the Jobs page.

Key Specifications

Slurm Version: 22.05.8 (Documentation)
Operating System: Debian 12 (bookworm), Linux 6.1 kernel
CUDA Version: 13.0 Update 2
cuDNN Version: 9.14.0
NVIDIA Driver Version: 595.104.02 (supports CUDA 13.0 Update 2)

Node Reservations

g2 - reserved for shiry-gpu through 2026-10-31

Maintenance Notes - October 2026

g19 and g22 are each running with 7 of their 8 RTX A6000 GPUs until a hardware repair; one card in each keeps dropping off the bus. Jobs that need all 8 GPUs on one node should use another node for now.
g19 and g22 will be out of service Monday, October 26, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (CDT) for that repair. Until then they only start jobs that will finish before 9:00 AM Monday.