Farber is UD’s second Community Cluster. It is a distributed-memory, Linux cluster consisting of 190 compute nodes (3,800 cores, 14.9 TB memory). An FDR InfiniBand network fabric supports the Lustre filesystem (approx 256 TB of usable space). Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet networks provide access to additional filesystems and the campus network. The cluster was purchased with a proposed 4 year life, putting the end of its warranty in the July 2018 to September 2018 time period.
This cluster is currently unavailable for purchase
Please see the Farber End-of-Life Plan and Polices document for complete details.
Provided Infrastructure
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Stakeholder Purchases
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| Memory upgrade | upgrade RAM to 128 or 256 GB |
| Coprocessors | Intel Phi 5110P or nVidia Tesla K40X coprocessors |
| Other options | additional storage above the default workgroup storage allocation can be purchased |
What's in the name?
David Farber
The Farber cluster has been named in honor of David Farber, UD professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Farber is one of the pioneers who helped develop the U.S. Department of Defense’s ARPANET into the modern Internet. His work on CSNET, a network linking computer science departments across the globe, was a key step between the ARPANET and today’s Internet. Today, Farber’s work focuses on the translation of technology and economics into policy, the impact of multi-terabit communications, and new computer architecture innovations on future Internet protocols and architectures. He was named to the Internet Society’s board of trustees in 2012.