The servers

All these servers are Intel Xeon-based with large, shared servers with University Managed Desktop - Ubuntu LTS.

If you are a taught student you will only have access to the teaching servers. 

Everyone else automatically has access to the research machines.  Please reserve the teaching machines for undergraduates and teaching use only.

From 29th March 2023

All servers will include easybuild modules to align more closely with Viking, gViking & Viking2

• research0 has 32 cores/64 threads and 512 GB of memory. It will run Ubuntu 22.04
• research1 has 32 cores/64 threads and 512 GB of memory. It will run Ubuntu 20.04
• teaching0 has 28 cores/56 threads and 384 GB of memory. It will run Ubuntu 22.

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Until 28th March 2023

• research0 has 56 cores and 512 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 18.04 and legacy YARCC modules
• research1 has 56 cores and 512 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 20.04, with easybuild modules to align more closely with Vikingresearch2 has 56 cores and 512
• teaching0 has 28 cores and 384 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 18.04research3

Until 24th April 2023

These servers are end of life and will be turned off on that date.

• research2 has 56 cores and 512 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 18.04 , with easybuild modules to align more closely with Vikingteaching0 has 32 cores and 256 and legacy YARCC modules
• research3 has 56 cores and 512 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 18.04, with easybuild modules to align more closely with Viking
• teaching1 has 48 cores and 128 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 20.04, with easybuild modules to align more closely with Viking

Acceptable Use Policy

We try to avoid imposing restrictions so that we can make the most of the servers. However to ensure fairness we have some ground rules:

• Users must not deliberately impact others' work
• Only use one server at a time
• Do not exceed 50% of the cores or memory
• Monitor the usage of your own and others using top or similar. This can also kill processes - see help guide
• Do not run more copies, or for more time than required for your work.

If your job will run for more than a few days it may be faster to run it on our HPC: /wiki/spaces/RCS/pages/39159378

IT Services will restrict or terminate processes and user accounts if they are having an unreasonable impact on the service or other users.