Computational Resources for Scientific Computing
The Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing group maintains a number of shared compute servers that can be used for software development and running compute jobs.
Current Load on the below Servers
Available compute servers
The following machines are available locally within the department (for access to compute clusters, see below):
Machine name | Hardware | Purpose |
strange | 48 x Opteron 6174 (2.2 GHz) 64 GB of memory |
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charm | 32 x Opteron 6328 (3.2 GHz) 512 GB of memory |
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up | 64 x Opteron 6378 (2.4 GHz) 128 GB of memory |
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down | 64 x Opteron 6378 (2.4 GHz) 128 GB of memory |
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bottom | 48 x Opteron 6174 (2.2 GHz) 128 GB of memory |
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top | 64 x Opteron 6380 (2.5 GHz) 512 GB of memory |
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wplus | 64 x Opteron 6378 (2.4 GHz) 256 GB of memory |
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wminus | 56 x Intel Xeon E5-2697 (2.6 GHz) 512 GB of memory |
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wzero | 32 x Intel Xeon E5-2640 (2.6 GHz) 256 GB of memory |
This machine supports visualization and has a high-end graphics card. Instructions for use are here. |
schubert | 24 x Opteron 8435 (2.6 GHz) 64 GB of memory |
Reserved for Frank Sottile's research group |
tester | 64 x Opteron 6376 (2.3 GHz) 128 GB of memory |
Reserved for automated regression tests |
Each of these machines were bought by either Andrea Bonito, Jean-Luc Guermond, Bojan Popov, or previous members of the group, but they can be used by all members of the group. An account on one of these machines is good for all of them. To get an account, send an email to the math helpdesk with a CC: to Jean-Luc Guermond.
Filesystems
Like from all departmental machines, you will have access to your
own /u/username
directory. This file system is backed
up but has relatively limited disk space (for example, faculty have
a quota of 5GB).
On the other hand, the top
file server exports a filesystem
with directories /w/username
with currently some 6TB of (remote)
disk space to all of the machines listed above. It is backed up at regular
intervals, though not necessarily as often as
the /u/username
directories (due to the enormous amount
of data on these disks).
There is no quota on how much disk space you use
on /w/username
, but be a good
citizen.
Software
All machines above have most typical development software installed. If you need a package installed that isn't there, let us know.
Cluster computers
If you need more compute resources, you can also ask for accounts on the Brazos cluster and the Texas A&M Supercomputing Center.