Announcements 
Announcements for users
New Nvidia Volta V100 GPU server installed in research computing
A new VMWARE server has been added to the Stern Cloud. It has a 16GB Nvidia V100 GPU which is directly attached to the virtual machine Comp7gpu1. The GPU can be accessed from a grid job, by adding #$ -l GPU=1,h_vmem=64gb to the grid submission script. matlab, tensorflow and pytorch have all been tested on… Read More ›
Links for SAS users
UCLA SAS materials https://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/SAS/sk/default.htm Is a complete intro and overview to SAS. It has examples, videos, data sets etc. A good way to both get started with SAS, as well as find advanced techniques.
Large Scale Distributed Processing for Heavy input/output Intensive Jobs
The Center has retired it’s Hadoop cluster which was used for large i/o intensive workloads. Users should instead use the NYU HPC cluster. This infrastructure is based on the open source apache hadoop. In this environment, a data file is split across many systems, and a program is sent to all of the nodes a… Read More ›
Cloud Computing At Stern
The Stern Center for Research Computing has 4 large servers providing a cloud computing environment for Stern researchers. Researchers needing specialized servers can have them quickly implemented in the cloud, without purchasing new hardware. We now have about 100 virtual servers running in the Stern Cloud. Any intel based OS can generally be supported, including… Read More ›