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Grid – Node Resources Available

Grid Total

The grid currently totals to:

  • ~8000 Job Slots
  • ~20 PB RAM
  • Lots of Local HDD/SSD
  • ~1PB Grid Storage

Node Software

The grid nodes should all run the same software, if your desired software isn’t available please get in touch.

  • Rocky Linux 9
  • GCC
  • Python 3
  • iPython
  • Fortran
  • Perl
  • Git
  • SVN
  • Mercurial
  • TSCH
  • ZSH
  • Gfal
  • MPI

Node Types

We have several types of node available on the grid.

Most of the time the specifications of the systems will not make a difference to your work and this is provided mainly for documentation purposes.

Lenovo

Type – 64GB

These node types are due to retire in 2024.

  • 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 @2.4Ghz
  • 64GB RAM
  • 3TB+ HDD
  • 2x 1GB Network
  • 26 Job Slots

Type – 128GB

  • 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 @2.4Ghz
  • 128GB RAM
  • 4TB HDD
  • 2x 1GB Network
  • 26 Job Slots

HPE

  • 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630v4 @2.2Ghz
  • 64GB RAM
  • 4TB HDD
  • 2x 1GB Network
  • 28 Job Slots

Dell

Type – I5120

  • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 5120 @2.2Ghz
  • 192GB RAM
  • 1TB HDD
  • 2x 1GB Network
  • 44 Job Slots

Type – I5220

  • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 5220 @2.2Ghz
  • 96GB RAM
  • 450GB SSD
  • 1x 1GB Network
  • 46 Job Slots

Type – A7352

  • 2x AMD Epyc 7352 @2.3Ghz
  • 256GB RAM
  • 960GB SSD
  • 1x 1GB Network
  • 84 Job Slots

Type – A7763

  • 2x AMD Epyc 7763 @2.4Ghz
  • 512GB RAM
  • 1.92TB SSD
  • 2x 1GB Network
  • 192 Job Slots

Retired Node Types

These nodes have been retired and are left here for documentation purposes.

SuperMicro

  • 2x Intel Xeon X5650 @2.6Ghz
  • 48GB RAM
  • 500GB+ HDD
  • 2x 1GB Network
  • 18 Job Slots
  • Retired in late 2022