High Performance Computing at PennMedicine is supported by the Enterprise Research Applications (ERA) group within Penn Medicine Academic Computing Services (PMACS). Please send requests and report problems to Jason/Rikki/Anand.
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PMACS ERA
The Enterprise Research Applications (ERA) group within Penn Medicine Academic Computing Services (PMACS) is a small and diverse team of individuals who are focused on providing High Performance and Research Computing Support to the faculty and staff at the University of Pennsylvania.
PMACS Cluster Overview
The hardware of the PMACS Cluster comprises of
- 64 Compute nodes (physical servers)
- Each compute node has 256 GB of RAM and 16 physical cores with hyperthreading turned on; 16.3TB RAM and 2048 cores total
- 1 dedicated "Big-Meomory" machine - 64 cores & 1.5TB RAM
- 1 dedicated master node
- 870TB of usable disk storage provided by IBM's SONAS (Scale Out NAS)
- 1.8PB Archival storage
- All compute and storage connected via 10GigE interconnect
- Dedicated 10GigE PennNet link from campus to the datacenter
The PMACS Cluster is physically housed at the Philadelphia Technology Park (PTP) which is a secure facility within the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Accounts
For Account requests please contact Jason Hughes, Rikki Godshall or Anand Srinivasan
Usage Policies
Penn Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.upenn.edu/computing/policy/aup.html
Guidelines
Don't run compute-intensive tasks on the cluster head node (consign). Use an interactive node (bsub -Is bash) instead. Please read the man page for 'bsub' and the documentation linked below.
