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This is the new DARWIN CLUSTER PAGE

Provided Infrastructure

UDIT provided infrastructure table
Basic details
  • Installation in a secure data center
  • Racks, floor space, cooling and power
  • Five-year warranty on nodes
Network
  • 2 x 10 Gbps uplink to campus network
  • 12 x 100 Gbps Intel OmniPath uplinks between racks
Storage

Aggregate storage across the cluster:

  • 320 TB (raw) Lustre high-speed scratch
  • 160 TB (raw) NFS for home and workgroup directories

Workgroups have unlimited access to Lustre, plus:

  • Unlimited UD- and guest-user accounts with 20 GB home directory
  • Workgroup directory quotas start at 1 TB and scale in proportion to investment
Login nodes

Users connect to the cluster through two login nodes:

  • 2 x 18C Intel E5-2695 v4 (36 cores)
  • 128 GB DDR4 memory (8 x 16 GB)
  • 1 x 10 Gbps uplink to campus network, Internet
  • 1 x 100 Gbps Intel OmniPath cluster network

Stakeholder Purchases

Stakeholder Purchases table
Feature Description Items Cost
Standard architecture
  • 2 x 18C Intel E5-2695 v4 (36 cores)
  • 128 GB DDR4 memory (8 x 16 GB)
  • 960 GB SSD (local scratch, swap)
  • 1 x 100 Gbps Intel OmniPath cluster network
60 $5000
Memory upgrade
  • 256 GB DDR4 memory (8 x 32 GB)
  • 512 GB DDR4 memory (16 x 32 GB)
  • 48
  • 6
  • $1000+
  • $3500+
Coprocessors
  • 2 x nVidia P100 “Pascal” GPU
6 $3500+
Other options

Subject to discussion with IT:

  • Additional workgroup storage quota
  • Accelerated local scratch storage (per-node NVMe)
10 $7000+

What's in the name?

Portrait image of Jane Caviness

DARWIN

Back ground information about the DARWIN Cluster. No it is not named after Charles Darwin.