isambard

Plugin isambard from marketplace isambard-skills in isambard-sc/skills.isambard.ac.uk. Commands read from the repo's manifest — yesterday.

Skills (11)

• brics-hpc-ai-code

  Guidance for writing, reviewing, and running AI-generated code responsibly on Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) shared HPC resources: Isambard-AI and Isambard 3. Use this skill whenever generating, adapting, or debugging code intended to run on BriCS facilities, writing Slurm job scripts, ma

• containers

  Guide for using containers on Isambard AI (BriCS) supercomputers with Podman-HPC and Apptainer (formerly Singularity). Use this skill whenever a user asks about running containers on Isambard, using podman-hpc or apptainer/singularity, pulling or building container images, running containers on comp

• cuda

  Guide for using GPUs and CUDA on Isambard AI (BriCS) supercomputers (Isambard-AI Phase 1 and Phase 2, which have NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper GPUs). Use this skill whenever a user asks about CUDA on Isambard, loading the cudatoolkit or nvhpc modules, compiling CUDA kernels with nvcc, the correct -arch

• data-transfer

  Guide for transferring data to, from, and between BriCS Isambard facilities (Isambard-AI Phase 1, Isambard-AI Phase 2, Isambard 3). Covers the standard scp/rsync-over-SSH workflow (including clifton for project-to-project transfers and submitting large transfers as Slurm jobs) and the early-access d

• getting-support

  Guidance on how to get help with Isambard-AI and Isambard 3, including when and how to raise a support ticket on the BriCS helpdesk, checking service status and known issues first, and what to include in a ticket. Use this skill whenever a user hits an error or blocker on Isambard, asks how to conta

• modules

  Guide for using the modules system, programming environments, compilers, and profiling tools on Isambard AI (BriCS) supercomputers (Isambard-AI and Isambard 3). Use this skill whenever a user asks about loading modules on Isambard, the Cray Programming Environment (PrgEnv-gnu, PrgEnv-cray), compiler

• mpi

  Guide for using MPI on Isambard AI (BriCS) supercomputers (Isambard-AI and Isambard 3). Use this skill whenever a user asks about MPI on Isambard, running multi-node MPI jobs, Cray MPICH, cray-mpich, PrgEnv-gnu or PrgEnv-cray for MPI, the PMI or PMIx process manager interface, srun --mpi flags (cray

• nccl

  Guide for using NCCL (NVIDIA Collective Communications Library) on Isambard AI (BriCS) supercomputers. Use this skill whenever a user asks about NCCL on Isambard, multi-node GPU communication, the aws-ofi-nccl plugin, Slingshot 11 RDMA for GPU collectives, the brics/nccl module, NCCL environment var

• python

  Guide for installing and managing Python environments on Isambard AI (BriCS) supercomputers. Use this skill whenever a user asks about Python on Isambard, setting up Conda/Miniforge, using uv, installing pip packages, building from source on aarch64/Arm64, mpi4py on HPC, virtual environments on Isam

• slurm

  Guide for submitting, monitoring, and managing HPC jobs using the Slurm workload manager on Isambard-AI (GH200 GPU nodes) and Isambard 3 (Grace CPU and MACS nodes). Use this skill whenever a user asks about Slurm on Isambard, writing sbatch scripts, requesting GPUs or CPU resources, srun or salloc,

• spack

  Guide for installing, configuring, and using Spack to build software on Isambard AI (BriCS) supercomputers (Isambard-AI Phase 1, Phase 2, Isambard 3 Grace, Isambard 3 MACS). Use this skill whenever a user asks about Spack on Isambard, setting up a Spack environment, using the buildit configuration r