• How to access the Blanca nodes:

    1. Create a Research Computing account
    2. Contact the Research Computing by emailing them at rc-help@colorado.edu and request access to the Blanca nodes. Your email should contain:
      • Your name
      • Your identikey
      • Your position(If you are faculty member, post doc, graduate student, etc.)
      • Who your supervisor is, if you are not a faculty member
      • What you intend to use the nodes for

Two connected Blanca nodes are accessible to applied mathematics faculty members and graduate students for running computational jobs, which require sixteen or more cores. These machines are accessible upon request. Please familiarize yourself with the documentation before you request an account. Improper use of these machines may result in a discontinuation of the users account. Note that if you are a graduate student, you will need to have your advisor contact the IT professional and verify that they would like their student to have access.

Node Specifications:

 

Node type

 Specifications Cost** Best work loads

Compute node

bnode05 [01-02]         
  • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6230 (2.1 GHZ, 20-core, “Cascade Lake”)
  • 192 GiB RAM bnode05 01 / 176GiB RAM bnode05 02
  • 480 GB local ssd
  • 10-gigabit Ethernet
  • EDR infiniband
  • RHEL 8
 $9,597.41/node batch processing, high-throughput computation, and high-performance parallel/distributed computation

GPU node

bnode05 [08-09]
  • 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6130 (2.1 GHZ, 16-core, "Skylake")
  • 1X NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU coprocessor (12 GB memory)
  • 192 GiB RAM (2666 MT/s)
  • 1TB local disk (7.2K RPM SATA)
  • 10-gigabit Ethernet
  • RHEL 8
 $13,604.11/node molecular dynamics, image processing, deep learning; alternate and additional GPUs supported

 

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