Server Hardware available for purchase

Workstations:

Dell Precision Workstation T5820, T7820, T7920 - $2000 to $5000+

Servers, Compute Nodes and Storage:

Options:

Buy servers (ECN supported); housed in data center.

Buy servers (self supported); housed in data center with remote console access.

    Dell PowerEdge R740, R640, R540 - $4000 to $15,000+

Buy into the ITaP RCAC community cluster. - see details below:

ITAP RCAC websites:

https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/

Cluster Node information:

https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/compute/snyder

https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/compute/brown

Brown High-Performance Cluster (through Oct 2022)

96GB memory, Two 12-core Intel Xeon Gold 6126 "Sky Lake" processors (24 cores total), EDR Infiniband interconnect. Access through this purchase will end October 2022.

Brown is optimized for a wide variety of highly-parallel and HPC applications.

$5,039 per node

Brown-GPU node (Dedicated queue)

96GB memory, Two 12-core Intel Xeon Gold 6126 "Sky Lake" processors (24 cores total), EDR Infiniband interconnect. Access to this purchase will end March 2023.

Brown-GPU is optimized for a wide variety of highly-parallel and HPC applications.

$18,325

Snyder-E Data-Intensive Cluster, 384GB (through Oct 2022)

384GB memory, Two 12-core Intel Xeon Gold 6126 "Sky Lake" processors (24 cores total), EDR Infiniband interconnect. Access through this purchase will end October 2022.

The Snyder cluster is optimized for data-intensive life sciences or any application requiring large amounts of memory in a single node.

$9,500 per node 

Research Data Depot

High-capacity, fast, reliable, and secure data storage system designed and configured for the needs of Purdue researchers and campus units in any field. Data in the Research Data Depot is directly accessible from

other ITaP Research resources and is also shareable with both on-campus and off-campus collaborators.

$75 per TB per year