Sinister Compute Server | Computing

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Sinister is owned by David Wales. It has these features:

Forty-six six-core dual Xeon X5650 (2.6GHz) nodes
24Gb RAM per node
Gigabit Ethernet interconnect

Sinister is intended for serial task farming, and small-scale parallel MPI jobs.

Cluster user documentation:

Introduction for users

Generic queueing system documentation

Sinister queue system and parallel job configuration

Generic parallel programming notes

Hobbit system monitor for sinister

Cluster admin documentation:

Installing the Portland compilers

Setup notes on the wiki

System status

System monitoring page

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