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title: Cluster 'merlin5'
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last_updated: 07 April 2021
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#summary: "Merlin 5 cluster overview"
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sidebar: merlin6_sidebar
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permalink: /merlin5/cluster-introduction.html
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---
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## Slurm 'merlin5' cluster
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**Merlin5** was the old official PSI Local HPC cluster for development and
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mission-critical applications which was built in 2016-2017. It was an
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extension of the Merlin4 cluster and built from existing hardware due
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to a lack of central investment on Local HPC Resources. **Merlin5** was
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then replaced by the **[Merlin6](../merlin6/cluster-introduction.md)** cluster in 2019,
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with an important central investment of ~1,5M CHF. **Merlin5** was mostly
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based on CPU resources, but also contained a small amount of GPU-based
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resources which were mostly used by the BIO experiments.
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**Merlin5** has been kept as a **Local HPC [Slurm](https://slurm.schedmd.com/overview.html) cluster**,
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called **`merlin5`**. In that way, the old CPU computing nodes are still available as extra computation resources,
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and as an extension of the official production **`merlin6`** [Slurm](https://slurm.schedmd.com/overview.html) cluster.
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The old Merlin5 _**login nodes**_, _**GPU nodes**_ and _**storage**_ were fully migrated to the **[Merlin6](../merlin6/index.md)**
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cluster, which becomes the **main Local HPC Cluster**. Hence, **[Merlin6](/merlin6/index.html)**
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contains the storage which is mounted on the different Merlin HPC [Slurm](https://slurm.schedmd.com/overview.html) Clusters (`merlin5`, `merlin6`, `gmerlin6`).
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### Submitting jobs to 'merlin5'
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To submit jobs to the **`merlin5`** Slurm cluster, it must be done from the **Merlin6** login nodes by using
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the option `--clusters=merlin5` on any of the Slurm commands (`sbatch`, `salloc`, `srun`, etc. commands).
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## The Merlin Architecture
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### Multi Non-Federated Cluster Architecture Design: The Merlin cluster
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The following image shows the Slurm architecture design for Merlin cluster.
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It contains a multi non-federated cluster setup, with a central Slurm database
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and multiple independent clusters (`merlin5`, `merlin6`, `gmerlin6`):
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