KyRic System Information

The cluster is hosted on twenty compute nodes with the following specs:

Model: Dell PowerEdge R90

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-4820 v4 @ 2.00GHz (Model 79 Stepping 1). 80 cores (4 sockets, 10 cores/socket, 2 threads/core).

RAM: 3 TB DDR4 RAM

Storage: 894 GB local disk storage per compute node and pooled 6 TB disk storage using OpenStack's Cinder.

OpenStack is essentially Virtual Machine manager. Each user can create a VM (powered by QEMU hypervisor–akin to VirtualBox). Each VM lives inside one of the nine compute nodes specified above. Each VM is isolated from another (user operations on one VM should not affect other VMs in the same or different compute node). Users can create VMs through a web front end or from the CLI. VMs can be accessed via any terminal through SSH or through a web console.

Each user is associated with a project (currently with the same name as the PI's linkblue id). Access to the OpenStack kyric cluster is on kyric.netlab.uky.edu. Log in using your linkblue credentials. Each project is allotted a quota for virtual CPUs (VCPUs), RAM, volume disk space, etc. OpenStack won't let you create more VMs if the project quota is exceeded.

This cluster allows campus researchers to create virtual machines (VMs) to run scientific applications. Users can create VMs through a web browser or from a command-line interface. VMs can be accessed through an SSH connection via a terminal, as well from a web dashboard/browser.

The login page for KyRIC OpenStack is accessible from campus or UK VPN via the URL: https://kyric.rc.uky.edu using linkblue credentials.