Hardware resources

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Compute servers

  • There are 8 x 28-core compute nodes with 128 GB RAM each (wonko1 - wonko8)
  • There is a 96-core SMP server with 3TB of RAM (alf)

Storage

  • Please also see Storage Quotas and Charges
  • Home directories are on a 80TB NFS4 filesystem over Infiniband (/home)
  • User data directories are on a 1.2PB Lustre filesystem over Infiniband (/nlustre/users)
  • User scratch directories are on a 1.2PB Lustre filesystem over Infiniband (/nlustre/scratch/users)

Backups

  • Data is backed up daily to a 1.5 PB ZFS JBOD system. Please contact the system administrator (johann.swart at up.ac.za) if restores are needed.