News
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- 2024-09-18: Migrated Aurora from KVM to bare metal on new server hardware
- 2024-05-02: Upgraded Aurora to Ubuntu 22.04, R to 4.4.0, JuypterLab to 4.0
- 2024-04-17: Migrated /home on Aurora to CephFS
- 2022-11-17: Converted Aurora from LXD to KVM
Aurora Resources
Hardware
- Dell PowerEdge R7625 server
- Dual AMD EPYC 9634 84-Core Processors (4th Generation EPYC, Genoa)
- 336 logical cores (vCPUs) / 168 physical cores
- 3.7 GHz max boost / 3.1 GHz all core boost
- 384 MB L3 Cache per processor
- 2.25 TB 4800 MHz ECC DDR5 memory
- NVIDIA A40 GPU
- 48 GB ECC GDDR6 memory
- 10,752 CUDA cores
- 84 RT cores
- 336 Tensor cores
- Dual 25-GbE bonded network ports
- CephFS storage for /home
- Ubuntu Server Edition 22.04 LTS
Access
Aurora can be accessed at aurora.nceas.ucsb.edu via the following methods:
First connection
Note that for security reason we require that you reset your password at your first access to the server. It can only be done by connecting to the server via ssh. Please read this page about the steps to follow: First login to NCEAS analytical server
Troubleshooting