Campus researchers have access to Strelka, Swarthmore's computer cluster.  To learn more about the capabilities of the system and obtain an account, email support@swarthmore.edu.  

Technical Specifications

System Configuration

The cluster consists of 18 nodes, each with two CPUs with an additional head node to handle user logins and job scheduling. 

• 12 mid-memory nodes (384GB - 512GB RAM)

• 3 high-memory nodes (768GB RAM)

• 1 high-CPU node (72 cores)

• 2 GPU nodes, each with 4x NVIDIA 2080 Ti GPUs

• Over 700TB storage

• High speed Infiniband networking

Jobs are submitted through the Slurm job scheduling system.

Summary

Creating an Account

Please see these instructions for creating an account on Strelka.

Logging in

Please see these instructions for logging into Strelka.  

Transferring Files

Please see these instructions for transferring files to/from Strelka.

Submitting Jobs

To run code on Strelka, you need to submit a job to the queue. For complete information, see the Slurm Commands page.

Other Strelka Resources

Acknowledgement

If you publish a paper where the cluster was used for calculation, please include the following acknowledgement:

“This work used the Strelka Computing Cluster, which is supported by the Swarthmore College Office of the Provost.”

Governance

An Advisory Group has been set up to govern the decisions concerning Strelka.  The members of the Advisory Group are:

• Tristan Smith, Physics

• Dan Grin, Haverford

• Jason Simms, ITS

• Andrew Ruether, ITS