ISL maintains and provides access to a number of experimental systems:

System NameDescriptionStorageNetworkingHostnameStatusService datesAccess
Ac33TYAN server with Intel Westmere-EP CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPUsLocal 300GB + 1TB HDD ac33in service2014open
HybridSuperMicro server with Intel Haswell-EP CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUsLocal 75GB SSD + one (3x 4TB) RAID 0 arrays10GbEhybridin service2016restricted
Vlad-hmHigh memory server with 3TB of ECC RAM

Local 3TB SSD + two (6x 1TB) RAID 0 arrays

CephFS 257TB (reported)

10GbE vlad-hmin service open
NanoCluster of 8 SuperMicro servers with Intel Haswell CPUs, AMD Fiji Radeon R9 Nano and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs

Local 256GB SSD per node

NFS-mounted 40TB /home (11x 4TB in RAID 5)

BeeGFS w/ mirror ~41.5TB usable (WIP)

10GbE external

1GbE + IB QDR internal

nanoin service2016open
ChiefCluster of 5 Dell R730 servers with Intel Broadwell CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs (Student Cluster Competition 2016-present) (Jump)

Local 400GB SSD per node

5x 800GB SSD in RAID 5

10GbE + IB EDR internalchiefnot in service2016restricted
Tesla

Cluster of 8 Dell C4130 servers with Intel Haswell CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla K40m GPUs (Student Cluster Competition 2017) (Jump)

  teslaretired & removed2017restricted
ACAC cluster      
VLAD OpenStack clusterVLAD cluster      
 Xeon Phi 5-node co-processor cluster  knc   
KNLXeon Phi 4-node processor cluster (access via KNC)  knl*   
Object (admins only)Kubernetes test cluster  object   
 AMD ARM server      
JetsonNVIDIA Jetson TK1 cluster   offline  
Jetson TX2NVIDIA Jetson TX2 cluster1TB NFS-mounted /home1GbE internal & externaljetson-tx2-*in service08/2017 
 Raspberry Pi boards      
 Altera DE5 FPGA board      
pynqXILINX PYNQ-Z1  pynqin service05/2017open
XilinxDevKitXilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA KCU1500 Acceleration Development Kit  iridium   
 Seagate storage      
 Ceph storage   in service open
Power9 serverIBM POWER9

Local 2x 3.84TB SSD

Local 1.4TB NVME

10GbEhal000in service restricted to NSF MRI project
Power9 serverIBM POWER9

Local 2x 3.84TB SSD

Local 1.4TB NVME

1GbEp9in service restricted to  XPACC project
Power8 serverIBM POWER8Local 447GB SSD1GbEp8retired restricted to NSF MRI project


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