This is our primary campus HPC resource. Ganymede, named after Jupiter’s largest satellite, is a cluster built on the condo model. While Ganymede does have significant free-to-use queues available to all UT Dallas researchers, a majority of the computational power is provided by nodes purchased for exclusive group access.
Compute System Specs
Ganymede has over 2,000 CPU cores, 32TB of memory, and attached storage for computation. Ganymede has been the workhorse here at UTD, currently utilized by over 600 users across many schools at UT Dallas with multiple software packages and scientific programs being utilized and supported.
Ganymede is set up to run only one job per node. When a user submits a job, they will be given exclusive access to the entire node, regardless of how many cores or how much memory is requested. The following partitions are available by default:
Note: The resources listed only account for a fraction of the compute capacity of Ganymede.
| Queue Name | Number of nodes | Cores (CPU Architecture) | Memory | Time Limit ([d-]hh:mm:ss) |
| debug | 2 | 16 (Intel Sandy Bridge) | 32 GB | 02:00:00 |
| normal | 110 | 16 (Intel Sandy Bridge) | 32 GB | 4-00:00:00 |
| 128s | 8 | 16 (Intel Sandy Bridge) | 128 GB | 4-00:00:00 |
| 256i | 16 | 20 (Intel Ivy Bridge) | 256 GB | 4-00:00:00 |
| 256h | 1 | 16 ( Intel Haswell) | 256 GB | 4-00:00:00 |