{"id":9343,"date":"2024-08-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2024-08-23T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T15:59:34","slug":"firebird-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2024\/08\/26\/firebird-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Firebird Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For more than a year, Swarthmore and Lafayette College have been working on an ambitious plan to merge our respective high-performance computing (HPC) environments. After much hard work on the part of extensive teams at both institutions, we are pleased to announce the completion of the project!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result of this combined effort is Firebird! <a href=\"http:\/\/20 compute nodes, 5 high-memory nodes, 2 high-CPU nodes, 4 GPU nodes, and 2 storage nodes, offering in total 1,724 cores, 15 GPUs, and over 1.2 PB of storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This cluster<\/a> consists of 20 compute nodes, 5 high-memory nodes, 2 high-CPU nodes, 4 GPU nodes, and 2 storage nodes, offering in total 1,724 cores, 15 GPUs, and over 1.2 PB of storage. For institutions of our size, this is a substantial set of resources, and we anticipate additional expansion this academic year and beyond. HPC versions of many popular software packages are available as well, including Stata, MATLAB, and Mathematica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firebird is available for use now. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/swatkb.atlassian.net\/wiki\/spaces\/ACADTECH\/pages\/251691016\/Requesting+an+Account+on+Firebird\">request an account<\/a>, and please reach out to Jason Simms (jsimms1@swarthmore.edu) if you would like to discuss ways in which you can leverage the system in your research, teaching, projects, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a year, Swarthmore and Lafayette College have been working on an ambitious plan to merge our respective high-performance computing (HPC) environments. After much hard work on the part of extensive teams at both institutions, we are pleased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2024\/08\/26\/firebird-rising\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firebird Rising<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":9344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,357,430],"tags":[90,350,201,481,484],"class_list":{"0":"post-9343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-high-performance-computing","9":"category-research","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-hpc","12":"tag-research","13":"tag-research-computing","14":"tag-teaching-with-technology","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Firefly-Flaming-firebird-rising-from-a-fiery-pool-51818-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-2qH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions\/9346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}