Academic Compute Partitions Hardware Specs

The UB-HPC cluster contains several partitions available only to academic users.  These partitions are comprised of various Linux "nodes" (a.k.a. servers) with differing hardware specs and manufactured by several different vendors.  The hardware is similar enough that when networked together, users can run complex problems across many nodes to complete their problems faster.  This is known as a "Beowulf cluster."

For information about the nodes in the "Industry" partition of this cluster, please see this page.

Login servers are for interactive use, job submissions, editing and transfering files.  CPU time limit of 30 minutes in effect to prevent users from running software on the login servers.  For more information on login servers, including connection information, please refer to our documentation.

Compute nodes are accessible only through the SLURM scheduler (batch or interactive job submissions or via OnDemand).   These node configurations are available in the debug and general-compute partitions of the UB-HPC cluster, unless otherwise specified.  This information changes frequently so please use the snodes command for the most accurate, current conditions, and refer to our documentation for more information. 

Class Partition:

This partition is available to professors teaching small courses that might need high performance computing capabilities.  Professors should refer to this information regarding class access and contact us to discuss viablity.  Those who have access to the class partition in the UB-HPC cluster will be able to use the following types of compute nodes: