Usage Models and Resources

Interactive and Big-Data Single Node
  • Usage: 
    • Login to river-fe.cs.uchicago.edu
  • CPU:  24 cores in total (2 x Intel Xeon E2650 v3 processors, 12 core, 2.3GHz, 30MB cache for each processor)
  • DRAM:  512GB total (16 x 32GB TruDDR4 Memory 2133MHz)
  • Disks: 96 TB total (8 x 6TB 7.2K 6Gbps HDD + 12 x 4TB 7.2K HDD)
  • Network: one 10 GigE Ethernet NIC + one 1GigE Ethernet NIC
VM Cluster for Batch Jobs
  • Usage:
    • Login to river-fe
    • Use Slurm commands to submit batch jobs
    • See Slurm's User Guide to learn how to submit and manage jobs
  • Number of VM's: 120
  • Each pair of VM's share a hardware node with two Intel Xeon E2650 v3 processors (24 cores), 16 x 16GB TruDDR4 Memory (256GB), two 800GB SATA MLC SSD's (1.6TB), and a 10GigE network
VM's for Interactive/Timesharing Jobs
  • Usage:
    • Login to river-fe
    • Login to one of rivervm-[1-24]
  • Number of VM's: up to 48, currently 24.
  • Each twelve VM's share a hardware node with two Intel Xeon E2650 v3 processors (24 cores), 16 x 16GB TruDDR4 Memory (256GB), two 800GB SATA MLC SSD's (1.6TB) and a 10GigE network
Nodes for Low-level Experiments
  • Usage:
    • Low-level Systems experiments (full hardware control)
    • Contact system administrator at river-admin@cs.uchicago.edu