IRMACS Computational Cluster

One of the IRMACS Centre's main focus is the support of computational tools in the support of intersdisciplinary research. As part of this support IRMACS provides its user community with access to a dedicated computational cluster. The IRMACS computational cluster is a ten blade server with each blade consisting of 2 Quad Core Intel Xeon CPUs. Each blade has 16 GB of memory (2 GB/core) for a total of 80 CPUs and 160 GB of memory. User accounts and data storage on the cluster is provide by a 2 TB Raid 0+1 disk array. The cluster is running 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. A number of commonly used software packages are installed on the IRMACS cluster, and open source software or software purchased by researchers can be installed on request.

For more information on utilizing the IRMACS computational cluster, including information on the software installed and how to submit jobs, please refer to the computational cluster support documentation. For users that have very large or very long running computational jobs, you might want to consider utilizing the WestGrid computational resources.