CyVerse UK Infrastructure

Earlham Institute

Hardware

Storage

482TB (usable) + mirrored backup system of equivalent capacity, comprising:

• Primary: Isilon S200 with 482TB usable capacity
• Mirror: Isilon NL400 with 438TB usable capacity, separate from the primary storage.

Computing

8 Nodes (2x 2U cases) with:

• 16 logical cores each (Intel Xeon E5-2640v3)
• 256 GB RAM
• 500GB Scratch space 16 nodes (4x 2U cases) with:
• 12 logical cores each (Intel Xeon E5-2603v3)
• 128 GB RAM
• 500GB Scratch space

BBSRC 16ALERT awarded additional funds for 40 additional nodes with, 24 with:

• 24 logical cores each
• 512GB RAM And 16 nodes with:
• 16 logical cores each
• 256GB RAM

Networking

Infiniband to interconnect back-end storage systems
10Gb ethernet into Earlham campus network
10Gb link to UK university JANET network

Middleware

Scheduling: HTCondor
Virtualisation: OpenStack (Mirantis Fuel)