DARWIN (darwin.hpc.udel.edu)

DARWIN (Delaware Advanced Research Workforce and Innovation Network) is a big data and high performance computing system designed to catalyze Delaware research and education funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This award will establish the DARWIN computing system as an XSEDE Level 2 Service Provider in Delaware contributing 20% of DARWIN's resources to XSEDE: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment now transitioned to ACCESS: Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support as of September 1, 2022. DARWIN has 105 compute nodes with a total of 6672 cores, 22 GPUs, 100TB of memory, and 1.2PB of disk storage. See compute nodes and storage for complete details on architecture.

Attributes

  • classified as a compute-cluster
  • hardware platform is x86_64
  • uses AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core Processor processors
  • running CentOS
    • release 7.8.2003
    • kernel 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64
  • The system is monitored by Ganglia and is web accessible.

Milestones

  • December 10, 2018: Initial planning of machine purchase begins.
  • February 21, 2020: Purchase of machine is finalized.
  • May 24, 2020: Machine ships to UD.
  • June 3, 2020: Machine arrives at UD.
  • June 30, 2020: Machine is integrated into campus network and powered on.
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