Windows Cluster

The University of Newcastle provides a microsoft compute cluster that is available for staff/students wishing to run jobs.

Other software may be installed after consultation with ARCS staff.

Head node
Name:  WINGRID2008
Hardware:  Intel Xeon 2.33GHz, 8GB RAM, Total 300GB storage of which 200GB is available as shared space for users.
Operating System:  Windows Server 2008 – HPC Edition
Software Installed:  MS HPC Pack, MS Visual Studio.NET 2005

  

Compute Nodes (8 nodes)
Name: WinGrid-Node001…….WinGrid-Node008
Hardware: Intel Xeon 2.00GHz, 16GB RAM, 160GB hard drives
Software Installed:  2008b, R, Magma


Accessing the Cluster

See the documentation:
Instructions for Submitting a Job to the Cluster (PDF)