Dexter Compute Server | Computing

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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

Local Maui/Torque admin

System status

System monitoring page

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