LIGO Data Analysis System (LDAS) @IUCAA

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Sarathi Cluster at Inter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune, INDIA, hosts 249 Compute nodes offering a theorital peak performance of ~535TFlops. This cluster is set up primarily for Gravitational Wave research at IUCAA, its collaborating research institute and the Indian Universities.

A summary of hardware resources is given in the following table.

Service Nodes
Access Point#1 ldas-pcdev1.gw.iucaa.in 8C, 64 GB RAM
Access Point#2 ldas-pcdev2.gw.iucaa.in 8C, 64 GB RAM
Access Point#3 ldas-pcdev3.gw.iucaa.in 8C, 64 GB RAM
Access Point#4 ldas-pcdev4.gw.iucaa.in 8C, 64 GB RAM
Access Point#5 ldas-pcdev5.gw.iucaa.in 8C, 64 GB RAM
Access Point#6 ldas-pcdev6.gw.iucaa.in 8C, 64 GB RAM
Access Point#7 ldas-pcdev7.gw.iucaa.in 8C, 64 GB RAM
Phase I
Execution Points / Compute nodes cn1001-cn1100 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680-v3 (12C), 256 GB RAM (20 nodes), 128 GB (80 nodes)
GPU nodes gpu001-gpu005 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680-v3 (12C), 256 GB RAM, 2 Nvidia Tesla K40m per node (5 nodes)
Phase II
Execution Points / Compute nodes cn2001-cn2048 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6142 (16C), 192 GB RAM (48 nodes)
Phase III
Execution Points / Compute nodes cn3001-cn3096 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6248 (20C), 384 GB RAM (96 nodes)
Storage All nodes 2.3 PB (PFS), Each node with 200 GB SSD + 600 GB Spinning disk
Network Cluster internal 1G and 10G (cn1001-cn1100, cn2001-cn2048, gpu001-gpu005), 50G (cn3001-3096)

SSH CA Cert: Append the SSH CA certificate below to your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file on your local machine.
SSH_CA_Cert @cert-authority * ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBIGT11sJn2cJblQb8VcH2/GpAdmMs+c/mECrA/t/PiRB1Ncf2G4ZgQ0bV+qPM7eunyCT2UoIU5iIoYO4gqrYWrE= IUCAA_SSH_CERT_AUTHORITY