Compute Clusters

PAOC's compute clusters provide students and researchers with enviable computing resources.

PAOC currently supports a number of systems, principle among which are the Engaging and Svante compute clusters.

THE Engaging CLUSTER:

The Engaging cluster is a large compute cluster managed by MIT, consisting of over 1500 compute nodes, 40,000 cores, and 10 PB of Lustre-based storage. All nodes are interconnected by a low-latency infiniband fabric, and some compute nodes are equipped with GPUs to accelerate enabled mathematically-intensive codes.  All PAOC students are eligible for a general account on this cluster; many PAOC faculty have priority on a subset of compute nodes for their students' use.

THE SVANTE CLUSTER:

Named after  Svante Arrhenius, the Swedish scientist who first speculated about fossil fuel emissions and the greenhouse effect, the Svante cluster is available for students, post-docs, and researchers affiliated with The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change  or The Center For Global Change Science.

• 80 compute nodes, most employing either the Intel "broadwell" or "sandy bridge" chipset, running @ 2.60-3.47 GHz and equipped with 48-128 GB RAM per node (approximately 1800 total physical cores)
• Ten dedicated high-capacity file server nodes; total disk storage capacity is over 3 PB.
• Compute and file server nodes interconnected by a low-latency infiniband fabric.

For more information or to request an account, please email svante-info@mit.edu