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.

The machines have the following resources

Baseline servers

All servers include easybuild modules to align more closely with Viking.

• research2 research0 has 56 32 cores/64 threads and 512 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 1822.04research3
• research1 has 56 32 cores/64 threads and 512 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 1820.04, with easybuild modules to align more closely with Viking
• teaching0 has 32 28 cores/56 threads and 256 384 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 18.04, with easybuild modules to align more closely with Vikingteaching1 has 48 cores and 128 GB of memory. It runs Ubuntu 20.04, with easybuild modules to align more closely with Viking22.04  

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.