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High-Performance Computing

The Miami Redhawk cluster is available for use by faculty, staff, and students. The RCS group is here to provide support for how the cluster can support research and teaching efforts. Faculty can request account activation using the button below. Students can ask a faculty member to sponsor an account for them.

Request an Account

Resources and Information

Access

Faculty can request account activation on the cluster management website or using the button above. Students can ask a faculty member to sponsor an account for them.

Once you have an account, there are different ways to access the Redhawk cluster. Note that when you are accessing the cluster, you are connecting to the head or login node of the cluster. See the section on using the cluster for information about accessing the compute nodes.

Command line access is available using SSH, with SFTP/SCP used to transfer files. 

Access to the cluster with a full Linux desktop is also available using a tool called NoMachine or NX.

To get more information on how to connect to the Redhawk cluster, submit a Connection Instruction Request.

Using the Redhawk Cluster

Cluster usage is broken into two categories – interactive and batch.

  • Interactive usage allows the user to interact with a cluster node to run the software and receive output in real-time.
  • Batch usage allows the user to submit work to the cluster to be executed when the needed resources are available, with optional e-mail notifications to the user when the job starts and ends.
Additional information provides details for using the Slurm resource manager and details for batch and interactive usage.

Redhawk Cluster Software

Most software on the cluster is managed with the modules tool.

The HPC Software table lists software installed on the Redhawk cluster.

Contact the RCS group to request the installation of additional packages or with other questions about software on the cluster.

Redhawk Cluster Hardware

Miami's current HPC cluster consists of:

  • 2 login nodes – 24 cores, 384 GB of memory each. Machine names:
    • mualhplp01
    • mualhplp02
  • 26 compute nodes – 24 cores, Intel Xeon Gold 6126 2.6 GHz processors, 96 GB of memory each. Machine names:
    • mualhpcp10.mpi-mualhpcp26.mpi
    • mualhpcp28.mpi-mualhpcp35.mpi
    • mualhpcp37.mpi
  • 5 compute nodes - 24 cores, Intel Xeon Gold 6226 2.7 GHz processors, 96 GB memory each. Machine names:
    • mualhpcp42.mpi-mualhpcp45.mpi
    • mualhpcp47.mpi
  • 2 large memory nodes – 24 cores, Intel Xeon Gold 6126 2.6 GHz processors , 1.5 TB of memory each. Machine names:
    • mualhpcp27.mpi
    • mualhpcp36.mpi
  • 4 GPU nodes – 96 GB of RAM, 24 cores, Intel Xeon Gold 6126 2.6 GHz processors and each with 2 Nvidia Tesla V100-PCIE-16GB GPUs. Machine names:
    • mualhpcp38.mpi-mualhpcp41.mpi
  • Shared storage system with approximately 120 TB of storage, expandable.

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