Usages

Project Page

Project is an abstraction for a resources this include CPUs, memory, GPUs, and storage. Users cannot allocate more resources that it is available.

It will show all the tasks that belong to this project and resources that have been allocated to this project.

Task

There are currently 2 templates available on Apex.

1. Code Server: Which is a VSCode on a web browser. This is recommended for general tasks.
2. NeMo: Those who want to use the NeMo can use this template to run a NeMo stack with a VSCode interface.

Create Task

All the tasks are belong to a Project. Users can create task with a GPU by click the create task menu and select the template.

After create a task, it will show a Pending status while it is being create. After finished, it will change to Running status and user can click Open to access the task.

If you stop the Task, currently it won’t be able to restart it.

Volume

We support volume for persistent storage. Volumes are project-scoped, so every tasks in the project can mount volume to it.

Policy

• Glider is still under development, if you encounter any issues on Glider please contact out support team (apex@cmkl.ac.th).
• We do not have any SLAs for Glider, please backup your data regulary
• Your task might be terminated by our system-admin, any files or scripts that want to be persistent, please use the dedicated volume.
• You may encounter a Pending state due to our system resources limitation, if your tasks are critical please contact our admin.

Known issues

• Glider Task cannot run any superuser commands (sudo)
• Glider is running in containers, so if your projects require a virtual machine support, please contact our support.
• Some library/framework uses total CPUs of system as default value, in this case, it will cause a CPU throttle on your container.