Getting Access to Europa for Early Access Users

Welcome to Europa Early Access!

Europa is a “new” high throughput computing (HTC) system that is … :

  • 12,000 cores from a retired XSEDE/TACC HPC system, Stampede
  • deployed in UT System Data Center, ARDC
  • maintained by UTD sysadmins from OIT CIRC
  • supported by TRECIS facilitators via this ask.ci category
  • available for early testing now!

In order to get access to Europa, send an email to circ-assist@utdallas.edu, request an account and provide your netid, ask.ci username, and your PI. The OIT CIRC team will then create your account and notify you when it is ready to be used.

After that, you can access Europa via SSH. You must either be on campus or connected to the UTD VPN in order to access.

ssh netid@europa.circ.utdallas.edu

If you have any problems accessing Europa or if you have any questions about how to use the system, please create a new topic here.

Over the coming months, we will be launching a new support portal, developing a new documentation infrastructure, and conducting several short course training. All updates will be posted here, so stay tuned!

Best,
Chris


Dr. Christopher S. Simmons
Director, Cyber-infrastructure Researcher Support
Office of Information Technology
University of Texas at Dallas
PI for the TRECIS project

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Congratulations !!!

I am extremely thankful that this resource exists and I can’t wait to use it.

Hi, What is the architecture of the normal and dev nodes in Europa? I need the number of CPUs and amount of RAM (Memory) per node to optimize my allocations.

@Saeed here are the specs^1:

Component Technology
Sockets per Node/Cores per Socket 2/8 Xeon E5-2680 2.7GHz
Motherboard Dell C8220, Intel PQI, C610 Chipset
Memory Per Host 32GB 8x4G 4 channels DDR3-1600MHz

Thank you very much.