====== Hardware ======

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Picture by Kevin Dudley.

===== Summary =====

  * 32 general-purpose compute nodes (16, 24, or 32 cores each)
  * 6 special-purpose compute nodes
    * 4 Big memory machines
    * 2 GPGPU machines
  * 9 File servers
  * More than 1PB of storage
  * Nodes are connected to the file servers, and to each other, by 10Gb ethernet

===== Currently Running =====

^ Machine ^ Use ^ Quantity ^ Notes ^
| Dell R720 | Head node | 1 | The machine you log in to as brccluster.cos.ncsu.edu, captainkirk.statgen.ncsu.edu |
| Dell R620 | Compute nodes | 26 | 2 processors (16 or 24 cores total), at least 128GB RAM per node |
| Dell R640 | Compute nodes | 6 | 2 processors (32 cores total), 384GB of RAM per node |
| Dell R820 | BigMem nodes | 4 | 512GB or 768GB of RAM, 24 or 32 cores total |
| Dell R720 | GPU Node | 1 | 2 Tesla K20M GPUs, 2 processors. 16 cores total, 256GB RAM |
| Dell R740 | GPU Node | 1 | 1 Nvidia V100 GPU, 2 processors, 36 cores total, 512GB RAM | 
| Dell R620 | File server 0 | 1 | Serves **/opt** (1TB) and runs name services for the cluster | 
| Dell R710 | File server 1 | 1 | Serves **/home** (40TB) over NFS |
| Dell R620 | File server 5 | 1 | Serves **/home1** (60TB) and **/scratch** (72TB) over NFS. /home1 and /scratch are encrypted. |
| Dell R620 | File server 2 | 1 | Serves **/home2** and **/home3** (100TB each) over NFS |
| Dell R630 | File server 3 | 1 | Serves **/home4** (81TB) over NFS |
| Dell R740xd | File server 4 | 1 | Serves **/home5** and **/home6** (118TB and 98TB) over NFS, 12 x 12TB HDDs internal, /home6 is encrypted and should be used by projects with sensitive data. |
| Dell R730xd | Peng File server 1 | 1 | Serves **/peng_1** (80TB) over NFS |
| Dell R630 | gt4sp server 1 | 1 |Serves **/gt4sp_1** (80TB) and **/gt4sp_2** (120TB) over NFS |
| Dell R730xd | Aylor file server 1| 1 | Serves **/aylor_1** (120TB) over NFS |
| Dell R730xd | Guerrero file server 1| 1 | Serves **/bochica** (60TB) over NFS |
| Dell MD1400 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to fs4, 12 x 10TB HDDs |
| Dell MD1400 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to fs3, 12 x 8TB HDDs |
| Dell MD1400 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to spfs1, 12 x 8TB HDDs |
| Dell MD1400 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to spfs1, 12 x 12TB HDDs |
| Dell MD1200 | Disk arrays | 2 | Attached to fs1, 12 x 2TB HDDs each, combined into a single 40TB/37TiB volume |
| Dell MD3260 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to fs2, 60 x 4TB HDDs |
| Dell MD3260 | Disk array | 1 | Attached to fs5, 20 x 4TB, 10 x 8TB HDDs |

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