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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

hardware.txt · Last modified: 2021/12/14 17:04 by root