Architecture

The HPC encompasses a comprehensive set of resources, including a database server, extensive shared storage, a SAS frontend, and a general HPC cluster. Through the integration of cloud computing, we’ve been able to retire our outdated local hardware and fully transition to cloud-based hardware and software. This transformation empowers us to meticulously fine-tune every facet of these products, aligning them more precisely with the diverse requirements of our faculty and doctoral student researchers.

Compute Servers

  • Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 on a variety of AWS EC2 instance types, including:
    • ‘standard’ servers
    • servers with increased amounts of RAM
    • servers with GPUs
  • a flexible number of total servers, with many cores

Storage

  • WekaIO Weka FS volumes for user and data spaces
  • over 200TB of flexible shared disk space