{"id":6364,"date":"2020-02-17T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2020-02-16T19:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T00:27:03","slug":"strelka-has-landed-at-swarthmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/02\/17\/strelka-has-landed-at-swarthmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Strelka Has Landed at Swarthmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Strelka<\/em>, Swarthmore&#8217;s new computer cluster, is up and running and ready to run computationally-intensive jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The cluster consists of 7 nodes, each with two 20-core CPUs with an additional head node to handle user logins and job scheduling.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 mid-memory nodes (384GB RAM)<\/li>\n<li>2 high-memory nodes (768GB RAM)<\/li>\n<li>2 GPU nodes, each with 4x NVIDIA\u00a02080 Ti GPUs<\/li>\n<li>High speed Infiniband networking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jobs are submitted through the\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/slurm.schedmd.com\/documentation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Slurm<\/a>\u00a0job scheduling system.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the system and obtain a login account, please get in touch with us at support@swarthmore.edu.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Physics and Astronomy Professors Tristan Smith and <a href=\"https:\/\/astro.swarthmore.edu\/~jrivera3\/\">Jesse Rivera,<\/a>\u00a0Engineering Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/ganapati.swarthmore.edu\/\">Vidya Ganapati<\/a>, Swarthmore&#8217;s KIVA grant, and the Provost&#8217;s Office for their financial contributions to the computing cluster.<\/p>\n<p>See the ITS help site for more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.swarthmore.edu\/display\/ACADTECH\/High+Performance+Computing\">high performance computing resources available to Swarthmore researchers<\/a>.\u00a0 As always, if you have questions or ideas, please get in touch with your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/its\/its-staff#academic-technology\">Academic Technologist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imbp.ru\/WebPages\/win1251\/IBMP-50\/50-Gazenko.html\">Institute of Biomedical Problems<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strelka, Swarthmore&#8217;s new computer cluster, is up and running and ready to run computationally-intensive jobs. 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