Introduction

NOTS (Night Owls Time-Sharing Service history of name) is a batch scheduled HPC/HTC cluster running on the Rice Big Research Data (BiRD) cloud infrastructure. The system consists of 298 dual socket compute blades housed within HPE s6500, HPE Apollo 2000, and Dell PowerEdge C6400 chassis. All the nodes are interconnected with 10 or 25 Gigabit Ethernet network. In addition, the Apollo and C6400 chassis are connected with high speed Omni-Path for message passing applications. There is a 300TB VAST filesystem attached to the compute nodes via Ethernet. The system can support various work loads including single node, parallel, large memory multithreaded, and GPU jobs.

NSF Citation

If you use NOTS to support your research activities, you are required to acknowledge (in publications, on your project web pages, …) the National Science Foundation grant that was used in part to fund the procurement of this system. An example acknowledgement that can be used follows. Feel free to modify wording for your specific needs but please keep the essential information:

This work was supported in part by the Big-Data Private-Cloud Research Cyberinfrastructure MRI-award funded by NSF under grant CNS-1338099 and by Rice University's Center for Research Computing (CRC).

Node Configurations

Compute

GPU