Hydra Cluster¶

Hydra is a research cluster available to PSU students and faculty.

Hydra Specifications¶

Server Domain	`hydra.rc.pdx.edu`	`compute-0-[0-13]`	`compute-1-[0-11]`
Model	Dell PowerEdge R720	Dell PowerEdge R620	Dell PowerEdge R900
RAM	64GB	64GB	128GB
OS	Rocks 6.1.1	Rocks 6.1.1	Rocks 6.1.1
CPU	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2650	4 x Intel Xeon E7330
Clock	2.00GHz	2.00GHz	2.40GHz
Cores	16 (2 x 8)	16 (2 x 8)	16 (4 x 4)
Special Hardware	SSE4_2	SSE4_2
Hyper Threading	Enabled	Disabled	N/A
Network	N/A	10 Gigabit	1 Gigabit

A photo of the Hydra Cluster servers (highlighted in red).

Applications that have been compiled/configured locally are stored in:

/share/apps

Hydra has a large scratch space that can be used for computations:

/disk/scratch/[user folder]
/disk/scratch2/[user folder]

We have two JBODs attatched: