Introduction
The Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics (EPSAM) at Keele University are providing access to a linux based compute cluster.
This page gives details about the hardware, local services and support that are provided.
Hardware and Software Summary
The KHAOS cluster at Keele has 168 compute cores (Dual core Opteron 64 bit processors) and 3 Terabytes of storage space. The cluster was purchased from ClusterVision using SRIF3 funding. Each compute node has 2 dual core Opteron 280 (2.4 GHz) processors with 8GB of RAM. The local scratch space on each node is in /local. User data is not backed up.
For users with their own code we provide a development environment and the PGI commercial compiler. We are happy to discuss the potential site-wide installation of any software packages that a user may need.
The Globus Grid Middleware is installed to allow users to easily manage jobs across all NGS resources with a single sign-on.
The Compute Element (CE) contact string for the NGS Keele resource is:
cluster1.epsam.keele.ac.uk/jobmanager-sge
Contact
Any queries regarding the NGS resources at Keele can be directed to the NGS support desk. support@grid-support.ac.uk
