The high-performance computing resources at CCV equip the Brown research community to undertake complex numerical simulation, modeling, and data analysis.
Oscar is our primary research computing cluster with several hundred multi-core nodes sharing a high-performance interconnect and file system. Applications can be run interactively or scheduled as batch jobs.
Several large memory nodes provide substantially more memory than is available on typical workstations and laptops.
A large collection of software is available on CCV systems, including:
- python, perl, R, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple
- optimized math and science libraries
- domain-specific applications
We can help acquire and install most applications upon request.
Oscar Technical Specifications
- Two login nodes for compiling and job management
- About 400 compute nodes
- Specialized nodes containing GPU processors
- Large memory nodes (512 GB of memory)
- 400+ TB file system connected via a 40 Gigabit per second Infiniband network
- Diskless nodes with I/O provided by an IBM GPFS parallel file system
- 500 TB of usable disk space
- CentOS 6.7 Linux operating systm
- SLURM workload manager
Node summary (February 2018)
Number of Nodes |
Cores per node |
Memory per node (Usable) |
CPU Frequency |
Processor |
4
| 24
| 188 GB
| 2.6 GHz
| Intel Xeon Gold 6126 (Skylake)
|
95
| 24
| 126 GB
| 2.2 GHz
| Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 (Broadwell)
|
1
| 24
| 110 GB
| 2.2 GHz
| Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 (Broadwell)
|
44
| 20
| 126 GB
| 2.3 GHz
| Intel Xeon E5-2650 (Haswell)
|
144
| 20
| 126 GB
| 2.5 GHz
| Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
|
151
| 16
| 63 GB
| 2.6GHz
| Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge)
|
2
| 16
| 126 GB
| 2.6GHz
| Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge)
|
1
| 16
| 55 GB
| 2.6GHz
| Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge)
|
16 |
12 8 x 2304 CUDA cores |
128 GB 3 GB GDDR5 |
2.1 Ghz 863 Mhz |
Intel Xeon E5-2620v2 (Ivy Bridge) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 (Kepler) |
2
| 32 8 x 3584 CUDA cores |
756 GB 11 GB GDDR5X
| 2.6 GHz 1582 MHz
| Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 (Broadwell) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti
|
2 |
64 |
512 GB |
2.6 Ghz |
AMD Opteron 6282 SE (Interlagos) |
4 |
64 |
512 GB |
2.8 Ghz |
AMD Opteron 6386 SE (Piledriver) |