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About Ponyland

Ponyland is the informal name (officially Equestria) of the Computer Cluster for CLS. The cluster is used in the following ways:

  • Store databases and corpora
  • Run experiments
  • Parallel processing of huge datasets
  • Provide a Linux/Unix environment to users
  • Host several websites for CLS projects and affiliates

This service is provided for employees of CLS, affiliated guest researchers and student assistants.

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Administration

The cluster is hosted by C&CZ at Faculty of Science (FNWI) (Huygensgebouw). Technical maintenance is provided by FNWI and user-support by admin.

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List of dedicated servers

Address RAM Local disk space CPU threads GPU Accessible Purpose
applejack.science.ru.nl 504G 2.9T 56 no yes webserver, special purpose, portal
daisy.science.ru.nl no no dataserver
daringdo.science.ru.nl no no dataserver
derpy.science.ru.nl no no dataserver
dinky.science.ru.nl no no dataserver
lightning.science.ru.nl 503G 19T 64 NVIDIA A2 yes webserver (LXD containers), special purpose, MySQL server
spitfire.science.ru.nl no no webserver and dataserver

List of Pony-servers (computing nodes)

Address Boring name RAM Local disk space CPU threads GPU
blossomforth.science.ru.nl mlp09 256G 11T 32 no
cheerilee.science.ru.nl mlp05 252G 1.4T 64 no
fancypants.science.ru.nl mlp06 512G 1.6T 64 no
featherweight.science.ru.nl mlp08 256G 11T 32 no
fluttershy.science.ru.nl mlp02 252G 1.6T 40 2x NVIDIA RTX A4000
mistmane.science.ru.nl mlp13 126G 1.6T 32 2x NVIDIA Tesla V100
pipsqueak.science.ru.nl mlp07 252G 1.6T 32 no
rarity.science.ru.nl mlp03 252G 3.3T 32 2x NVIDIA Tesla V100
scootaloo.science.ru.nl mlp04 252G 11T 40 no
snips.science.ru.nl mlp12 126G 1.6T 32 1x NVIDIA Tesla M40
thunderlane.science.ru.nl mlp10 251G 11T 64 3x NVIDIA Tesla T4
twist.science.ru.nl mlp11 503G 11T 64 no
wildfire.science.ru.nl mlp14 504G 15T 64 4x NVIDIA RTX A6000 + 4x NVIDIA RTX A5000

Snips (mlp12) and Mistmane (mlp13) were named Thunderlane (mlp10) and Twist (mlp11) previously.

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