Kelvin is a scalable High Performance Computing (HPC) and Research Data Storage environment (this cluster is the Dell Cluster replacement).

Installation date: Nov 2015

• Compute nodes run CENTOS operating system
• HP hardware
• 51 HP Apollo compute nodes with Intel Haswell generation processors
• High memory nodes ranging from 128GB to 1TB of RAM
• 500TB of lustre parallel file system for scratch
• Each node has 20 cores
• All compute nodes and storage are connected by an Infiniband fabric
• Visualisation node (Nvidia K4200) for openGL applications. This must be requested.
• Private cloud provision for applications such as Galaxy and CLC Bio.

The Windows cluster provides support for Windows applications and users who want to work in Microsoft/GUI environment.

Installation year: 2013

Dell hardware

• Windows server 2012 operating system
• 16 x Dell c6220 servers

=> 256 cores

• Dual Intel Quad-core E5-2660 processors (64 GB memory )
• 10GB interconnect
• 30 terabytes of storage

Software

A wide range of scientific software is available for all the systems. New software can be installed on request providing a valid software license is available.

Support for researchers

The Research Support team provide help in a number of ways:

• Training - a 90min introduction to Kelvin can be organized and delivered on request.
• Help with job scripts
• Software installation
• Consultancy
• Programming help

Accessing the service and Getting Help

Please use the QUB Sitehelpdesk

https://it.qub.ac.uk/sitehelpdesk/user/log.asp

Create a new case, choose "services", then "Highe Performance Computing" and pick a category.

The categories are:

     a. user/group resquest or modification

     b. jobscript help

     c. application install request

     d. suspected system issue

     e. help with storage data