General
The cluster is composed of one head node named nansen.stanford.edu and 16 cluster nodes named cluster0XX.
Node stats:
- Dell Poweredge R410 1U chassis
- 1 TB drive
- Infiniband 4x DDR card (about 10x faster than gigabit
ethernet). - Dual quad-core intel processor.
- 32 GB RAM
Head node stats
General
The cluster is composed of one head node named nansen.stanford.edu and 16 cluster nodes named cluster0XX.
Node stats:
- Dell Poweredge R410 1U chassis
- 1 TB drive
- Infiniband 4x DDR card (about 10x faster than gigabit
ethernet). - Dual quad-core intel processor.
- 32 GB RAM
Head node stats
- Dell Poweredge R710 2U chassis
- 6x 1 TB drives
- Infiniband 4x DDR card
- Dual quad-core intel processor.
- 32 GB RAM
Shared file system
A shared file system is available on each node at /shared. Each user has his or her own private directory under /shared at /shared/users/username. Files are shared by a distributed filesystem called GlusterFS. It supports the Infiniband fabric and is generally fast and scalable to large numbers of nodes.
Local file system
Each cluster node also has its own local scratch storage. Use /home/username or /tmp as you see fit. /tmp is cleared out periodically, so only use it for temporary storage.
Network access
All access is through SSH through the head node “nansen.stanford.edu”.