High Performance Computing resources available to CS / Math / UW

See also:

• The MFCF page on High Performance Computing
• UW Centre for High Performance Computing
• SHARCnet at Waterloo

SMP (Symmetric Multi Processing)

HPC resource, adminis"> Flexor (UW HPC resource, administered by MFCF)

• SGI Origin 3800
• 52 MIPS processors
• 52 GB RAM
• OS: Irix 6.5 (64-bit)
• MFCF Web page

Tuxor (Math)

• SGI Origin 2000
• 8 MIPS processors
• 8 GB RAM
• OS: Irix 6.5 (64-bit)
• MFCF Web page

Pilatus (Math/CS)

• SGI Altix 3700
• MFCF's Pilatus web page
• 64 Itanium2 processors
• 192 GB memory
• OS: Novell SLES 10 with SGI ProPack 5
• PilatusAccounts - information on how to get an account on pilatus
• CFI funded (A. Storjohann, J. Orchard)

Winisk (Math)

• SGI Altix 350
• 6 Itanium2 processors
• 36 GB RAM
• OS: Novell SLES 10 with SGI ProPack 5
• owned by K.Lamb, AM
• Proposed addition of 10 processors, 60 GB RAM in current CFI New Opportunities grant

HPC resource, administ"> Visor (UW HPC resource, administered privately)

• SGI Onyx 2000 with FakeSpace visualization centre
• 16 MIPS processors, 16 GB RAM, 2 IR3 graphics pipes
• OS: IRIX 6.5 64-bit
• CFI funded (T.Seebohm; various CS and Eng. profs)
• Visor's web page

Clusters

Apple G5 cluster (Math)

• 41 G5 nodes
• CFI/CRC funded (J.Geelen, N.Wormald)

Cabernet (SGI GPU Cluster - Justin Wan)

• SciComGPUcluster

Chardonnay

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Daytona

Gamay (Development Cluster) (Math / CS)

• 20 nodes each with:
  • 2 Opteron processors
  • 4gb RAM
• 1 node with
  • ???
• 3.5 TB storage
• proposed in current CFI New Opportunities grant (P. Poupart, K. Larson, S. Ben-David)
• Internal details: CFPrivate.Gamay-login

Himrod

Muscat

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CS Teaching Resources

CS Teaching Cluster - ugster.student.cs

• Spring 2022 hardware available:

  Group      Hosts  Chassis                    CPU Model          CPUs  Cores per  GHz  RAM         GB    Storage
  ugster4xx      5  Dell R415                  Opteron 4228HE        2          6  2.8  DDR3 1333   16  500G 7200rpm
  ugster5xx      5  Dell R415                  Opteron 4332HE        2          6  3.0  DDR3 1333   16  500G 7200rpm
  ugster6xx      6  Dell R430                  Xeon E5-2609 v3       1          6  1.9  DDR4 2133   64   1TB 7200rpm
  ugster7xx     16  Supermicro SYS-6029TR-HTR  Xeon Silver 4214R     2         12  2.4  DDR4 2933  128   1TB 7200rpm, 512GB NVMe

• Contact: Edward Chrzanowski

External Resources

SHARCNET (UW)

• New addition to the existing SHARCnet system
• approximately 3000 processors
• funding approved (approx $40million)
• RFP in process
• installation expected to begin in Summer 2005
• Contact: Mike Hudson (UW Site Leader) or Jeff Chen, Physics

-- LawrenceFolland - 25 Jan 2005, MikePatterson - 16 Feb 2007