Newton cluster is available to qualified faculty, students (under faculty supervision), and researchers from Computer Science faculty . Users can request accounts for Newton cluster by filling out an account request form. This can be found by following this link: account request form.
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Introduction to the Newton Computing Cluster
The cluster consists of login node and a larger number of compute nodes. On a Newton cluster, login node are only used for preparing and submitting batch jobs.
In batch mode the tasks are described in a script and submitted to the job scheduler to be run on one of the compute nodes without further user intervention.
The compute nodes provide around 3000 CPU cores (6000 Threads) about 300 GPUs and for serial and parallel batch jobs. When justified by the project requirements, it is also possible to use a compute node allocation for interactive processing.
Typically users rely on home directories for small storage needs and use Datasets and private labs volumes for large storage requirements.