1. Who to Contact

Systems Administrator: Morgan Ludwig, Techsquare, email: svante-admin@mit.edu

Executive Director: Jeff Scott, email: jscott@mit.edu (text message Jeff in an emergency, see CS3 wiki page svante contact list for Jeff’s cell #)

Director: Adam Schlosser, email: casch@mit.edu, office phone 253-3983

Note

General technical support, questions, or problems should be addressed to Jeff and Morgan by emailing svante-admin@mit.edu.

Contact Adam or Jeff to get an account on the Svante cluster.

Office Hours: at this time we do not have regularly scheduled Svante office hours; please contact svante-admin@mit.edu to set up a meeting (in person or via zoom).

Current Svante facilities overview (e.g., sample language for use in proposals): The MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy operates a networked high-performance computer cluster that provides computational, analytical, and data-storage needs. In its current configuration, it is comprised of 140 compute nodes, linked via a low-latency infiniband network (a mix of dual 8-core, dual 16-core, and dual 24-core Intel Sandy Bridge, and Broadwell and Xeon scalable based units), with approximately 5000 total physical cores. This Linux-based computing system was built for model simulations, data analyses, and storage of large data sets. The cluster also operates a cross-mounted, infiniband-networked suite of 13 fileserver units with a present capacity of approximately 5 PB total storage, in addition to approximately 400 TB of local temporary storage on compute nodes. The cluster has 100 TB of total “home space” for general usage, source code, plots and figures, model builds, etc., with quotas of 500 GB per user, in addition to data storage on fileservers. Storage is backed up automatically at up to daily frequency (offsite) and protected from disk failure via a RAID6 array. All computational resources for this project are housed in the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC).