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Dexter Compute Server

Dexter is owned by Daan Frenkel, David Wales, and Mark Miller. It has these features:

  • Fifty eight-core dual Xeon E5-2670 (2.6GHz, Sandy Bridge) nodes
  • Eight eight-core dual Xeon E5-2640 v3 (2.6GHz, Haswell) nodes
  • 32GB RAM per Westmere node; 64GB RAM per Haswell node
  • Gigabit Ethernet interconnect

Dexter is intended for serial task farming, and small-scale or embarrassingly parallel MPI jobs.

Cluster user documentation: 
Introduction for users
Generic queueing system documentation
Dexter queue system and parallel job configuration
System monitor for dexter
Generic parallel programming documentation
Frenkel group scratch space
Cluster admin documentation: 
Installing the Portland compilers
Administrator notes
Wiki notes
Local Maui/Torque admin

System status 

System monitoring page

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