IDEA Cluster Details

The IDEA Cluster is a high performance computing environment consisting of five Intel Xeon and two AMD compute servers in various configurations ranging from 24-40 cores (48-80), 256GB-1TB RAM, and up to four GPUs per machine (Tesla K40m or Titan RTX). The IDEA Cluster includes two dedicated storage servers totaling more than 40TB of usuable space. The IDEA Cluster is designed for dedicated data mining, machine learning, and neural computing-intensive jobs using popular toolkits.

See https://idea.rpi.edu/IDEA_Cluster_Access for details on accessing the IDEA Cluster.

  • LP01 "Landing Pad" (Not for computing)
    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2623 v3 @ 3.00GHz 16 cores
    RAM - 64GB
    2 HD 1TB mirrored
  • idea-node-01
    4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz 12 cores
    RAM - 256GB
    1 HD 120GB
  • idea-node-02
    4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz 12 cores
    RAM - 256GFB
    1x HD 250GB
    4x Tesla K20M GPUs
  • idea-node-03
    4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz 12 cores
    RAM - 256GB
    1 HD 120GB
  • idea-node-04
    4x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz 12 cores
    RAM - 440 GB
    1 HD 1TB
    1 HD 2TB
    1 HD 230GB
  • idea-node-05
    2x 20-Core 2.5 GHz Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU
    384 GB RAM,
    2x Titan RT GPUs
  • idea-node-06
    AMD 7413 2.65GHz, 24C/48T,128M,180W,3200 (48 cores)
    RAM 1TB
    2x HD 240 GB - RAID 14x NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs
  • idea-node-07
    AMD 7413 2.65GHz, 24C/48T,128M,180W,3200 (48 cores)
    RAM 1TB
    2x HD 240 GB - RAID 1
    4x NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs
  • idea-store-01
    2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz 12 cores
    RAM - 64GB
    24x HD 3.7TB
    24x HD 10TB
    2x HD 120GB
  • idea-store-02
    2U TrUeNAS Enterorise X20 Dual Controllers
    12 X 3.5 Drive Bavs - 800 Redundant PowerSupply
    26,8 TB usable space with 11 3.8TB HDs in RAIDZ1
    Dual 10GB fiber connections
    Dual 25GB fiber connections
  • IDEA hypervisor (VM host)
    AMD 7402 2.8GHz,24C x2, 512GB RAM
  • TWC hypervisor (VM host)
    AMD 7402 2.8GHz,24C x2, 512GB RAM
  • HEALS hypervisor (VM host)
    AMD 7402 2.8GHz,24C x2, 512GB RAM