The Centre for Speech Technology Research, The university of Edinburgh

CSTR Computer Support

The CSTR computer network is part of the Informatics DICE network. General Documentation and FAQs concerning DICE can be found here. New users should take the time to read this information.

Specific CSTR information

Printing Posters

The simplest way to print an A0 poster is to use the self-service printers in the main library in George Square.

Desktop Computers

Desktop machines are generally single processors. You can run whatever you like (subject to the University's Computing Regulations, of course) on the machine that you sit at but please do not run processor intensive screen savers or other energy-wasting processes.

Compute cluster

The Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility (ECDF) runs the 'eddie' cluster and a storage area network (SAN). This provides the majority of CSTR's compute needs.

CSTR purchases substantial additional guaranteed capacity. If you want an account, you must request one via the ECDF webpage, first asking your supervisor/PI which project code you should use.

General purpose compute servers

Only members of CSTR can ssh to these machines. There is no job control - simply use 'top' to identify quiet machines.
nameprocessorsmemoryuse
ratte2x 3.06GHz hyperthreaded (4 cores equivalent)8GBgeneral
roseval2x 3.06GHz hyperthreaded (4 cores equivalent)8GBgeneral
aristoDual Intel Xeon E5320 (8 cores total)12GBgeneral
lindorDual Intel Xeon E5320 (8 cores total)12GBgeneral
zondarDual Intel Xeon E5320 (8 cores total)12GBgeneral

Multicore & large memory compute servers

Only members of CSTR can ssh to these machines. These machines mount the GPFS filesystem. There is no job control - simply use 'top' to identify quiet machines. It is essential to compile your code against the Intel Math libraries to get good performance out of these machines (including those using AMD CPUs). Currently, the only way to do this is to ask Peter Bell for assistance. If you cannot (or do not want to) compile against the Intel Math library, then please use the general purpose machines above.
nameprocessorsmemoryuse
majesticDual 8 core Intel Xeon E5-2667v2 (16 cores total)256GBgeneral
dyatlov Quad 8 core AMD Opteron 6328 (32 cores total)512GBgeneral
lubbock Quad 8 core AMD Opteron 6328 (32 cores total)512GBgeneral
tunguskaQuad 8 core AMD Opteron 6328 (32 cores total)512GBgeneral
zamora Quad 8 core AMD Opteron 6328 (32 cores total)512GBgeneral
bollin Dual 8 core Intel Xeon E5-2667v3 (16 cores total)256GBgeneral

GPU servers

CSTR also has a number of dedicated GPU servers on the DICE network. Only members of CSTR can ssh to these machines. Do not run heavy CPU jobs on these machines - use the compute servers listed above. These machines also mount the GPFS filesystem. To use the GPU machines, it is essential to use the gpu_lock mechanism. Ask an experienced user for help before using any of these machines.
nameprocessorsmemoryuse
rendlesham 2x GTX 590 (2048 cores 3G ram) 12GBGPU
schaffner 1x GTX 680 (1536 cores 2G ram)
1x GTX 690 (3072 cores 4G ram)
1x GTX TITAN (2688 cores 6G ram)
32GBGPU
bonnybridge2x GTX 680 (1536 cores 2G ram)
2x GTX 690 (3072 cores 4G ram)
32GB?GPU
dechmont 2x GTX 690 (3072 cores 4G ram) 32GBGPU
adamski 4x GTX TITAN (2688 cores 6G ram)32GBGPU
hynek 4x GTX TITAN (2688 cores 6G ram)32GBGPU
lazar 4x GTX TITAN (2688 cores 6G ram)32GBGPU
giger 4x GTX 980 (2048 cores 4G ram)32GBGPU