The NPL Data Center (NPLDC) provides critical infrastructure supporting high-performance scientific-computing applications that cannot be efficiently executed on typical commodity server infrastructures (e.g., the Amazon EC2 Cloud). In previous years the space housed a single cluster that was treated as one computational resource, also known as Athena. Today, to meet the wide and highly specialized array of research requirements, the cluster has been separated into two specific cluster instances. The first cluster instance leverages Infiniband interconnects (classified as HPC clusters) and runs the latest open-source Rocks software (http://www.rocksclusters.org/), runs the cvmfs (Cern-VM file system) client, and Frontier local-squid cache server. The second cluster that primarily runs single-threaded applications (non-HPC clusters) uses Rocks version 5.4, and most notably runs COMSOL, root (http://root.cern.ch/), and Geant. Both cluster instances use Torque/Maui via dedicated front ends.
Email Gary Holman (holman@uw.edu) for an account on either cluster.
The original wiki has been archived and can be accessed at Athena Project
This wiki has a wealth of information related to the cluster: cluster configuration, how to submit jobs, troubleshooting.