redfive standing by

In the past few months, we’ve been setting up a new computer cluster called redfive (why redfive?…). Right now, it consists of a login node and five compute nodes, totaling about 100 CPUs. It is developed and maintained entirely in-house (mostly by Rodrigo Tenorio and Federico De Santi, while I prepare coffee during their admin sessions!), which is great fun. It’s not meant to substitute a supercomputer, of course, but rather to provide a simple, easy-to-expand, no-queuing setup for mid-sized jobs, as well as a way to introduce students to remote servers. We need a GPU now!