Welcome to Swarm Cluster Documentation

The swarm hardware cluster consists of:

  • 1 head node with 24 cores (2 processors, 12 cores each - 48 cores with hyperthreading) Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz, 128GB RAM and 200GB local SSD disk.
  • 50 compute nodes with 28 cores (2 processors, 14 cores each - 56 cores with hyper threading) Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz, 128GB RAM and 200GB local SSD disk.
  • 50 compute nodes with 28 cores (2 processors, 18 cores each - 72 cores with hyper threading) Xeon Gold 6240 CPU @ 2.60GHz, 192GB RAM and 240GB local SSD disk.
  • 5 compute nodes with 56 cores (2 processors, 14 cores each - 56 cores with hyper threading) Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz, 264GB RAM and 30TB local disk. (Note: These are reserved for a class half of the year)
  • 2 data server nodes
  • 2 10GB network switches Dell S4048-ON

The software for the swarm cluster in 2021 consists of:

  • MAAS (Metal as a service - OS installation)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (OS)
  • ZFS filesystem shared over NFS
  • Slurm (job scheduling and resource management)

Before usage please read the following Documentation.