Our compute cluster contains a variety of machine configurations, from basic systems to large-memory multiprocessors. All systems are accessible to all members of the CS community for research or educational purposes.
All machines mount the department's filesystems. All are on the department's network. Access to the machines is restricted to the slurm workload manager.
Dedicated Machines
The current grid sports 25 nodes with a total of 1224 cores, as detailed in the following table.
| Name | Machines | Cores | Total Cores | Memory | Disk | CPU | Clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| smblade16a | 7 | 48 | 336 | 256G | 1T | Xeon E5-2650 | 2.2 |
| smblade16b | 12 | 56 | 672 | 256G | 960G | Xeon E5-2680 | 2.4 |
| smblade24a | 6 | 36 | 216 | 256G | 1T | Xeon Gold 5220S | 2.7 |
In the table above, where there are multiple machines of a type, hostnames end with a number (e.g. mblade1301).
All machines are running 64-bit Debian Linux.
GPU Servers
The grid also offers 29 GPU servers, providing a total of 172 GPUs. These machines are available only to jobs that specifically request GPUs.
| Name | Machines | Cores | GPUs | Memory | VRAM | Disk | CPU | GPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpu1601-05 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 256G | 8G | 256G | Xeon E5-2603 | Nvidia GTX 1080 |
| gpu1701-08 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 256G | 11G | 256G | Xeon E5-2603 | Nvidia GTX 1080ti |
| gpu1801-02 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 128G | 11G | 256G | Xeon E5-2609 | Nvidia GTX 1080ti |
| gpu1901-04 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 128G | 11G | 1T | Xeon Bronze 3106 | Nvidia RTX 2080ti |
| gpu1905-06 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 128G | 11G | 1T | Xeon Bronze 3106 | Nvidia GTX 1080ti |
| gpu1907 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 128G | 24G | 1T | Xeon Bronze 3106 | Nvidia Titan RTX |
| gpu2001 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 128G | 24G | 1T | Xeon Bronze 3106 | Nvidia Titan RTX |
| gpu2002-03 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 256G | 11G | 1T | Xeon Bronze 3106 | Nvidia RTX 2080ti |
| gpu2201 | 1 | 96 | 8 | 512G | 48G | 500G | AMD EPYC 7443 | Nvidia RTX A6000 |
| gpu2301 | 1 | 128 | 8 | 1T | 48G | 500G | AMD EPYC 7662 | Nvidia L40 |
| gpu2401 | 1 | 128 | 8 | 1.5T | 48G | 1T | AMD EPYC 9554 | Nvidia L40S |
| gpu2501 | 1 | 128 | 8 | 1.5T | 48G | 1T | AMD EPYC 9554 | Nvidia L40S |
Networking
Each machine in the cluster has a 1Gb switched network connection to the department's core switches.
History / Provenance
smblade16a
MaxBuilt blades purchased for the grid in 2016.
smblade24a
Blades purchased for Hydra in 2024.
gpu1601-05
GPU servers purchased by the department in 2016.
gpu1701-07
GPU servers purchased by the department in 2017.
gpu1708
GPU servers purchased in 2017 for the Data Science Initiative course DSI 1030.
gpu1801-02
GPU servers purchased by the department in 2018.
gpu1901-02,05-07
GPU servers purchased by the department in 2019.
gpu1903-04
GPU server purchased in 2019 for Stephen Bach's research group.
gpu2001-03
GPU servers purchased by the department in 2020.
gpu2201
GPU server purchased by the department in 2022.
gpu2301
GPU server purchased by the department in 2023.
gpu2401
GPU server purchased by the department in 2024.
gpu2501
GPU server purchased by the department in 2025.
