Compute Resources

Overview

The clusters known as Cluster, UV and HTC were purchased in 2012.  Cluster and UV are due to be removed from service at the end of 2017.  This was planned to allow time for researchers to finish projects started on these clusters for whom migration to Ocelote presents issues.

 El Gato was implemented at the start of 2014 and there is no planned date at this point to discontinue it.  El Gato is a large GPU/PHI cluster, purchased by an NSF MRI grant by researchers in Astronomy and SISTA.  30% of this system is available for general campus research, including the Nvidia GPU's and Intel Phi's.

Ocelote was implemented in the middle of 2016.  It is designed to support all workloads on the standard nodes except:

1. Large memory workloads that do not run within the 192GB RAM of each node can also be handled with either the large memory node or virtual SMP nodes
2. GPU's are available as a buy-in option or windfall.  Any other need for GPU's can be satisfied on El Gato.  

Test Environment

HPC has a test / trial environment as well as the primary clusters detailed below.  This environment is intended to be used for projects that are six months or less in duration and cannot be run on the production systems. Reasons for not being able to be run on the production systems include requiring root access, and hardware or software requirements that cannot be met by one of the production systems. If you have a project in mind that we might be able to support, contact hpc-consult@list.arizona.edu 

 * same as HTC nodes