Compute Grid

The department maintains a computing grid for use by our faculty, staff, and students. Jobs submitted to our grid our scheduled via Sun Grid Engine onto our grid resources (hardware and queues). See Using SGE for more information.

Please note that the grid is still a work in progress, so even this configuration is under review. Please email problem with any feedback.

Community

There is an active group of researchers within the department working on computationally intensive research. The department continually tries to meet the needs of all researchers, by periodically adding new dedicated compute hardware. We encourage anyone involved in research requiring high performance computing to join the compute mailing list. Doing so will help you stay abreast of the latest compute-related changes within the department and offer a place where compute-related researchers can collaborate and exchange ideas.

Policy and Appropriate Use

The compute grid is a general department resource and is available to all members of the CS community. Grid users should only run jobs associated with legitimate research or educational activities. The grid is a specialized tool, and should not be used to simply off-load normal desktop computing activities.

If you are unsure if a proposed use of the grid is appropriate, send mail to problem and tstaff will render an opinion.