High Performance Compute cluster (GRID)

Description of services

IT Services provides a general purpose Compute Cluster as a resource for researchers within the University.

Availability

24x7x52 subject to occasional maintenance downtime.

Service adoption enquiries

You should complete the registration form and return it to the Admin Front Desk, IT Services, James Watt North.

Support

• Users should use Helpdesk self-service where available,
  http://www.gla.ac.uk/it/selfservice (registered GUID required)
  Alternatively:
  e-mail: helpdesk@it.gla.ac.uk
  web: http://www.gla.ac.uk/it/helpdesk  

Customer service issues

Service issues should be raised in the first instance with:

IT Helpdesk
e-mail: helpdesk@it.gla.ac.uk
web: http://www.gla.ac.uk/it/helpdesk

or subsequently with

Director of IT Services
James Watt North Building
University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ

Further information

Documentation

• User guide

Who can use the cluster

The cluster is available for use by members of staff within the University to support their research. Postgraduate Students may also get an account if they have authorisation from their Head of College/School or Supervisor.

What the cluster consists of

The Cluster runs Torque & Maui (see www.clusterresources.com) on Centos Linux 5.3. There are 34 execution nodes available each with dual Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2384’s  and up to 32GB RAM per node.

Software available

In addition to the standard linux components (eg the GNU compilers - gcc, g++ g77 etc) we have installed MPI libraries (mpich2, mpiexec) and the sun compiler suite.