ResearchMachines
Quest High Performance Computing Cluster Nodes
The CS department has partnered with Northwestern IT Research Computing to provide priority access to 4 nodes (computers) on the Quest HPCC. These nodes are colloquially referred to as the “CS Quest Enclave.”
The pilot enclave includes:
- 10 TB storage space
- 2 x GPU nodes/computers, each with:
- 4 x NVIDIA A100 GPUs (80 GB SXM4)
- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6338 32-core CPUs
- 512 GB memory
- 2 x CPU nodes/computers, each with:
- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6338 32-core CPUs
- 256 GB memory
Local CS GPU Servers
The following is a list of CS-purchased GPU servers arranged in two groups: systems with a VM-based allocation scheme and systems configured to use the SLURM scheduler across their nodes (like Quest). These systems are primarily used for faculty-directed machine learning research projects.
VM-Based Systems
athena, glamdring, sting
Each with:
- 8 x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 48 GB GPUs
- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218 16-core CPUs
- 384 GB memory
SLURM-Based Systems
nyx, hemera, erebus
Each with:
- 4 x NVIDIA Ampere A40 48 GB GPUs
- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5318S 24-core CPUs
- 384 GB memory
CS CPU Server
Primarily used for faculty-directed research projects.
osprey.cs.northwestern.edu
- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6140 18-core CPUs
- 384 GB memory
Requesting Access
The above resources are available to the Northwestern CS community, enabling faculty and students to conduct research in a variety of computer science areas. If you are interested in using these machines, please have your faculty advisor contact Professor Bryan Pardo to apply for access.