Facilities, Equipment, and Other Resources

Computing Facilities

The CU Denver Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM) operates a network of clusters, servers, and workstations, which includes:

  • Alderaan cluster, total 2240 AMD EPYC 7502 cores and 4 NVIDIA A-100 GPUs: 2048 AMD 7502 cores and 16TB memory in 32 compute nodes (64 cores and 512GB per node), each with dual 960GB SSDs; 2 high-memory GPU nodes each with two NVIDIA A100 GPU, 2TB memory, and 64 AMD 7502 cores, and 960GB SSDs; head node with 64 cores; 816TB storage (1PB raw), HDR100 InfiniBand interconnect, and 10Gb/s connectivity from every node to Internet 2. The cluster was funded by the National Science Foundation and installed in 2021.
  • Colibri cluster, 384 Intel Sandy Bridge cores, 48 NVidia Tesla M2090 Fermi GPUs, QDR Infiniband interconnect, 104TB disk array, High Memory Interactive Node with 32 cores, and 1TB memory.
  • Score cluster, 100 Intel Ivy Bridge cores, 5 nodes, 192GB memory per node, 10Gbit Ethernet interconnects.
  • 190TB storage array.
  • Workstations and servers, connected by 1Gbs Ethernet, with 10Gbs uplink to the campus backbone.

Accounts are available for faculty and students at CU Denver | Anschutz campuses, as well as to sponsored external collaborars with affiliate appointments. Login is by university credentials.

Software

  • The clusters use a common SLURM batch scheduler.
  • Installed software on the clusters network includes MATLAB, R, and GNU compilers. Additional software is installed on request on Alderaan or in Singularity containers for use anywhere.
  • A large collection of software is available to CU Denver students and faculty through the Office of Information for free or at reduced costs, including a MATLAB site license.

Personnel Resources

  • The system administration is done by the CCM Director Jan Mandel, backed by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences IT, and assisted by student staff.

Other Resources

  • CU Denver is member of the the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC). The RMACC operates the Alpine supercomputer at CU Boulder. Allocations on RMACC resources are available to CU Denver students and faculty. Access to RMACC is through ACCESS federated login (previously XSEDE).