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Sinister Compute Server

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
Xmakemol
NAMD
Setup notes on the wiki

System status 

System monitoring page

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