Cluster 0

This page is about our legacy cluster at Mission Bay. We also have a Cluster 1 at University of Toronto and a new cluster Cluster 2 at UCSF.

Priorities and Policies

Cluster 0 is a legacy cluster that will shrink in 2014 and disappear entirely soon we hope. It predates many of the policies below. To this extent it is feasible, we intend to apply these policies retroactively to Cluster 0. However, the main idea is to get people off Cluster 0 asap and on to Cluster 2.

• Lab Security Policy
• Disk space policy
• Backups policy.
• Portal system for off-site ssh cluster access.
• Get a Cluster 0 account and get started

Physical machine summary

256 Intel Xeon E5430 2.66Ghz cores (8core)
118 Intel Xeon 3.0ghz cores        (dl140g1)
106 Intel Xeon 2.8ghz cores        (dl140g2)
38  Intel Xeon 2.4ghz cores        (microway)
32   AMD Opteron 275 2.2ghz cores  (dl145g2)
24   AMD 6164HE 1.7ghz cores       (dl165g7)

• Four node racks and Two server racks in BH-101
• Two node racks and One server rack in N108
• 36TB of RAID10 storage available to cluster, hosted among 8 dedicated servers
• Each node has 1GB memory/cpu-core or better

• 22 User workstations
• 30 Support/Infrastructure servers (e.g. databases)
• 6 Windows Laptops
• 2 VMWARE servers hosting virtual desktops and servers that do not require dedicated hardware

About our cluster

Server rack 1

Server rack 2