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Hardware
Picture by Kevin Dudley.
Summary
- 32 general-purpose compute nodes (16, 24, or 32 cores each)
- 6 special-purpose compute nodes
- 4 Big memory machines
- 2 GPGPU machines
- 9 File servers
- More than 1PB of storage
- Nodes are connected to the file servers, and to each other, by 10Gb ethernet
Currently Running
| Machine | Use | Quantity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dell R720 | Head node | 1 | The machine you log in to as brccluster.cos.ncsu.edu, captainkirk.statgen.ncsu.edu |
| Dell R620 | Compute nodes | 26 | 2 processors (16 or 24 cores total), at least 128GB RAM per node |
| Dell R640 | Compute nodes | 6 | 2 processors (32 cores total), 384GB of RAM per node |
| Dell R820 | BigMem nodes | 4 | 512GB or 768GB of RAM, 24 or 32 cores total |
| Dell R720 | GPU Node | 1 | 2 Tesla K20M GPUs, 2 processors. 16 cores total, 256GB RAM |
| Dell R740 | GPU Node | 1 | 1 Nvidia V100 GPU, 2 processors, 36 cores total, 512GB RAM |
| Dell R620 | File server 0 | 1 | Serves /opt (1TB) and runs name services for the cluster |
| Dell R710 | File server 1 | 1 | Serves /home (40TB) over NFS |
| Dell R620 | File server 5 | 1 | Serves /home1 (60TB) and /scratch (72TB) over NFS. /home1 and /scratch are encrypted. |
| Dell R620 | File server 2 | 1 | Serves /home2 and /home3 (100TB each) over NFS |
| Dell R630 | File server 3 | 1 | Serves /home4 (81TB) over NFS |
| Dell R740xd | File server 4 | 1 | Serves /home5 and /home6 (118TB and 98TB) over NFS, 12 x 12TB HDDs internal, /home6 is encrypted and should be used by projects with sensitive data. |
| Dell R730xd | Peng File server 1 | 1 | Serves /peng_1 (80TB) over NFS |
| Dell R630 | gt4sp server 1 | 1 | Serves /gt4sp_1 (80TB) and /gt4sp_2 (120TB) over NFS |
| Dell R730xd | Aylor file server 1 | 1 | Serves /aylor_1 (120TB) over NFS |
| Dell R730xd | Guerrero file server 1 | 1 | Serves /bochica (60TB) over NFS |
| Dell MD1400 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to fs4, 12 x 10TB HDDs |
| Dell MD1400 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to fs3, 12 x 8TB HDDs |
| Dell MD1400 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to spfs1, 12 x 8TB HDDs |
| Dell MD1400 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to spfs1, 12 x 12TB HDDs |
| Dell MD1200 | Disk arrays | 2 | Attached to fs1, 12 x 2TB HDDs each, combined into a single 40TB/37TiB volume |
| Dell MD3260 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to fs2, 60 x 4TB HDDs |
| Dell MD3260 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to fs5, 20 x 4TB, 10 x 8TB HDDs |
