IT Services High Performance Compute cluster (HPCC)

IT Services run a cluster of machines to provide researchers with computational resource. 

UofG staff can use the cluster to support their research and Postgraduate students may also get an account if they have authorisation from their Head of College/School or Supervisor.

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Headline specification

The cluster runs Torque and Maui on Centos Linux

  • 1020 virtual CPUs
  • 8 GeForce GTX 1080 GPUs
  • Up to 8gb RAM per core

Hardware

  • 7 Dell PowerEdge with Quad 16 core AMD Opteron 6376 and 512GB RAM per node
  • 2 Avanti SYS-2028GR-TE each with 4 GeForce GTX 1080 GPUs
  • 2 Dell R440 with Dual 24 Thread Xeon 4116 and 384GB RAM per node
  • 1 Dell R930 with Quad 24 Thread Xeon 4830 and 1.5TB RAM
  • 1 Dell R840 with Quad 40 Thread Xeon 6138 and 256GB RAM

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