High Performance Computing
Introduction
The High Performance Computing service provides a parallel computing facility in support of research activity within the University. It is part of the Research Computing Service within IT Services.
The service is comprised of the hydra cluster, running the Red Hat Linux operating system. It is funded from the University's research income and so is reserved for research use.
hydra.lboro.ac.uk
A 1956-core 64-bit Intel Xeon cluster supplied by Bull.
hydra consists of 161 compute nodes, each having two six-core Intel Westmere Xeon X5650 CPUs and 24GB of memory. A further two nodes are available with 48GB of memory. The compute nodes are connected by an Infiniband network.
hydra is running Bull Linux AS5.
The cluster has around 40TB of user home storage and a further 16TB of Lustre scratch file space
In order to make use of the service, you will first need an account. In order to obtain an account, please follow the instructions on the Apply for Time page.
Once your account has been created, you should read the User Guide, which describes how to log on to the systems, your user environment, programming for the cluster, and how to submit your jobs to the queue for execution.
Download a tutorial for getting started with the High Performance Computing cluster.