Introduction
Obsidian is ISU's campus high performance computing (HPC) cluster for faculty and staff engaged in research activities. Students will need faculty sponsorship to access Obsidian cluster.
The cluster uses the latest HPC Compute Blocks from Advanced Clustering Technologies and has a total of 560 cores, 1.78TB of RAM, and 21.50 TFLOPS of computing power. Please refer to Hardware specifications for more hardware details.
Resources
Our goal is to provide researchers access to computational resources necessary to construct and simulate scientific models, analyze and interpret complex and large data set.
Below are the links to HPC user guide and other useful information:
Support policies
Request Obsidian user account
Request disk quota extension
Remote login and file backup
Submit and run jobs
Modules and compilers
Instruction for students
To check the status of HPC, please use Ganglia Monitoring System Portal.
Please report HPC incidents to Linux System Management group, and request Custom Software Development service if you need further consultation on using HPC.