About our server

hardware

Server A (CHMI-Server-A)

• Running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Two 22-core Intel Xeon 2699V4 ‘Broadwell-EP’ 2.2 GHz CPUs for a total of 44 CPU cores (88 threads)
• 60 TB of RAID 5 storage (55 TiB)
• 2 TB of ECC-DDR4 RAM

Server B CHMI-Server-B)

• Running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Two 26-core Intel Xeon 5320 'Ice Lake-SP' 2.2 GHz CPUs for a total of 52 CPU cores (104 threads)
• 100 TB of RAID 5 storage (91 TiB)
• 2 TB of ECC-DDR4 RAM
• two NVIDIA RTX6000 GPUs with ‘Ada Lovelace’ architecture, each with 48GB of memory. You can read more about these GPUs here.

software

Software available on these servers change from time to time, but you can always view a relatively up-to-date listing of informatics tools we have installed here. In addition to this software, we also host Enterprise level IDE Posit Workbench on servers, which allows running RStudio Pro in their browser with full access to this machine's compute capabilities. We also have Geneious Prime installed and accessible remotely through a desktop sharing protocol.

drives and filesystem

Our two A and B linux servers are equipped with roughly 55TiB and 91TiB of storage respectively. There are two main directories you will need to be familiar with: