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Lab Computing Facilities

Students in the lab have access to world class machines funded by Dr. Brown's grants, featuring technologies such as Intel's 3DXPoint (NVRAM) and transactional memory (TSX-NI).

High-end experimental systems

Yes, these machines are named after League of Legends champions.

nasus.multicore.cs

nasus
  • 128 cores / 256 hardware threads (lscpu info)
  • 2x AMD EPYC 7662 (info)
  • 256GB DDR4 RAM
  • 1TB NVMe storage
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel 5.4
Usage: development, performance experiments

jax.multicore.cs

jax
  • 96 cores / 192 hardware threads (lscpu info)
  • 4x Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 (info)
  • 384GB DDR4 RAM
  • 1TB NVMe storage
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel 5.3
Usage: development, performance experiments
Note: supports transactional memory (TSX-NI)

zyra.multicore.cs

zyra
  • 72 cores / 144 hardware threads (lscpu info)
  • 4x Intel Xeon Gold 5220 (info)
  • 192GB DDR4 RAM
  • 1TB SSD storage
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel 4.15
Usage: development, performance experiments
Note: supports transactional memory (TSX-NI)

pyke.multicore.cs

pyke
  • 48 cores / 96 hardware threads
  • 4x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R CLX (info)
  • 192GB DDR4 RAM
  • 1536GB Intel 3DXPoint non-volatile RAM
  • 1TB NVMe storage
Usage: development, performance experiments
Note: supports transactional memory (TSX-NI)

malphite.multicore.cs

pyke
  • 10 cores / 20 hardware threads
  • 1x Intel Xeon Silver 4210R (info)
  • 96GB DDR4 RAM
  • 2x GeForce RTX 3080 (total 17,408 cores)
  • 480GB NVMe storage
Usage: development, performance experiments, GPU experiments
Note: supports transactional memory (TSX-NI)

Rift cluster

*.multicore.cs

Rift cluster
  • 8x nodes in addition to the login node (details below)
  • 288 h/w threads and 576GB RAM total
Usage: development, experiments, continuous integration (Gitlab Runners) and Marmoset testing.

Note per-server restrictions in permitted usage!
System information Permitted usage Status
Host Processor C / T RAM Storage Dev/Exp CI CS798
rift 1x AMD EPYC 7351P 16 / 32 64GB 1TB NVMe login node only
baron 2x Intel E5-2680v1 16 / 32 64GB 500GB HDD
elder 2x Intel E5-2680v1 16 / 32 64GB 500GB HDD
vilemaw 2x Intel E5-2680v1 16 / 32 64GB 500GB HDD
herald 2x Intel E5-2680v1 16 / 32 64GB 500GB HDD
infernal 2x Intel E5-2680v1 16 / 32 64GB 500GB HDD
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mountain 2x Intel E5-2680v1 16 / 32 64GB 500GB HDD
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ocean 2x Intel E5-2680v1 16 / 32 64GB 500GB HDD
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cloud 2x Intel E5-2680v1 16 / 32 64GB 500GB HDD
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** NOTE: if (and only if) there is no instance of course CS798 (Multicore Programming) currently running, then these machines can be used by lab members for Dev/Exp. Observe that machines supporting CI may not be suitable for running stable experiments!