About

Buddy, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a 168-node supercomputer for research and education. Research projects include particle transport, micromixing, stochastic modeling, ecological modeling, bio-informatics and the spread of disease. Buddy also has JupyterLab which is heavily utilized in classroom environments.

Buddy is managed by CREIC. The following shows the available compute resources:

Buddy Nodes

Partition

Name

Quantity

Node Type

Cores

RAM

Features

general

node-##

126

Compute

2x8

64GB

Compute

high-mem

node-##

11

High Memory

2x8

256GB

High Memory

gpu

gpu-##

2

GPU

2x16

64GB

Tesla M40

buddy-dtn-##

2

Data Transfer

2x8

64GB

OFFN+Globus

storage-ib

1

Storage

2x8

64GB

Home/Project Storage

storage-bak

1

Backup

2x26

256GB

On-site Backups