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Computing Resources

Kraken

Kraken is a 1.03 PetaFLOP Cray XT5 system. It is the primary system for NICS.

Athena

Athena is a 166 TF Cray XT4, which will be dedicated to solving important problems, particularly in climate and physics.

  • Athena is identical to Kraken in many ways, however there are some important differences users should be aware of.

Verne

Verne is a 5-node cluster dedicated to post processing analysis and visualization.

HPSS

The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is an integrated set of storage resources and services which manages archival data storage for all NICS HPC systems.