Computer Facilities
Taiwan-ARC currently has nine Linux computing nodes. The Lustre file system and the other machines are located
in the B3 server room. ALMA software is available on all machines. See the tables below for the specifications of
computers and disk arrays available to ALMA users. If you need a user account, please send your request to
arc
asiaa.sinica.edu.tw. The Lustre File System is used for data reduction. The NFS disk array is used for
longer term local data storage.
ALMA Computers
Click here to see the workload/status of all alma computers.
| Name | System | CPU | RAM | Internal storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server 1 | CentOS 7.9 | 2x Intel Xeon E5-2687-V4 @ 3.0 GHz 24-core total |
1560 GB | 4.6 TB SSD array |
| Server 2 | CentOS 7.9 | 2x Intel Xeon E5-2667-V4 @ 3.2 GHz 16-core total |
768 GB | 3.6 TB SSD array |
| Server 3 | CentOS 7.9 | 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6134 @ 3.2 GHz 16-core total |
1024 GB | |
| Server 4 (under reconfiguration) |
AlmaLinux 9.4 | 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6134 @ 3.2 GHz 16-core total |
1024 GB | |
| Server 5 (under reconfiguration) |
AlmaLinux 9.4 | 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6134 @ 3.2 GHz 16-core total |
512 GB | |
| Server 6 | CentOS 7.9 | Intel Xeon E5-2643 v3 @ 3.40GHz 12-core total |
192 GB | 6.5TB |
| Server 7 | CentOS 7.9 | Intel Xeon E5-2643 v3 @ 3.40GHz 12-core total |
192 GB | 6.5TB |
| Server 8 (under reconfiguration) |
AlmaLinux 9.4 | 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6134 @ 3.2 GHz 16-core total |
512 GB | |
| Server 9 | AlmaLinux 8.6 | 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6348 @ 2.6 GHz 28-core total |
1 TB | 47 TB NVMe SSD array |
ALMA Disk Arrays
- Click here to see an almalustre usage plot
| Name | Capacity | Path |
|---|---|---|
| Lustre File System | 1.7 PB total capacity. Mounted on ALMA servers via 100Gb/s Infiniband | /almalustre |
| NAS | 500 TB total capacity. Mounted on ALMA servers via 10Gb/s fibre network | /almanfs |