NIU ATLAS GRID Tier 3 facility
Introduction
The NIU T3 farm has been built via Tier 3g (T3g) Setup Guide CERN tutorial.
To access, please apply for the NICADD cluster account.
Hardware specification
- Head node:: 16GB RAM, 8 cores Intel E5410 @ 2.33GHz.
- NFS node :: 32GB RAM, 8 cores Intel E5620 @ 2.40GHz, 200 TB RAID6 (/xdata, /bdata)
- Interactive node :: 96GB RAM, 32 cores AMD @ 2.3GHz
- Worker nodes ( pt3wrk0-pt3wrk4) :: 176 batch slots ~2.1-2.3GHz, 1.5-2GB RAM/slot
Additionally, 420 batch slots from NICADD cluster are also available ATLAS analyses (but with lower priorities).