Research Computing and Data

Upcoming Summer 2024 Maintenance

The RCD team has scheduled a brief maintenance window at the end of the Summer 2024 semester.

The maintenance work will begin on Monday, August 12th, 2024 at 9:00 am. All RCD services, including the Palmetto Cluster and the Indigo Data Lake, will be unavailable until the maintenance work is complete.

During the maintenance period, we plan to complete the following:

  • Our system administrators will perform critical updates to the network and storage systems for Palmetto 2.
    • These updates will improve performance and stability for all users on the cluster.
    • These changes are not directly user-facing and should not break any existing user workflows.
  • Slurm will be updated to a new version.
    • Packages built with MPI will be updated to link with the updated Slurm MPI libraries.

This page will be updated with more details about the work completed after maintenance is over.

Users should expect that RCD services will be restored no earlier than Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 at 9:00 am and should monitor email for updates from RCD.

Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns that you have about this notice by submitting a support ticket – our team would love to hear from you!

New AI/ML Nodes Available

RCD is excited to announce that we have added five new powerful compute nodes to the Palmetto 2 cluster. The hardware in the new nodes is optimized for supporting large Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workflows.

Each node has the following hardware specifications:

  • Model: Dell PowerEdge XE9680
  • CPU: 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8470
  • Memory: 1 TB
  • Networking:
    • 8x NDR (3.2Tbit aggregate) Internode Communication
    • 200Gbit NDR200 Infiniband for Storage
    • 100Gb Ethernet
  • GPU: 8x NVIDIA Tesla H100 80G

These are available in the cluster for immediate use by Clemson users. We encourage you to make the most of these new resources!