Lab computers
In order to remotely log into PLSE or department machines, you can use SSH.
If you run a compute-intensive job, please use the nice command, as in
nice mycommand myarg1 ...
Available Machines
(List is generally in order from oldest/weakest to newest and most powerful.)
CSE machines:
CSE machines run Rocky Linux, and users do not have root privileges.
If you want to run LaTeX, log in to texlive.cs.washington.edu.
You can only log into texlive.cs from the UW network.
To log in from home, first log into a CSE machine,
and from there log in to texlive.cs.
Information about the departmental compute servers can be found at:
| Machine | RAM | threads | speed | CPU | CPU date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| recycle | 512 GB | 96 | 2.3 GHz | Xeon E7-4850 v2 | 2014 |
| bicycle | 512 GB | 96 | 2.3 GHz | Xeon E7-8850 v2 | 2014 |
| tricycle | 512 GB | 96 | 2.3 GHz | Xeon E7-8850 v2 | 2014 |
| bam | 256 GB | 72 | 2.3 GHz | E5-2699 | 2014 |
| boom | 256 GB | 72 | 2.3 GHz | E5-2699 | 2014 |
CSE-managed PLSE machines:
CSE-managed machines run Rocky Linux, and users do not have root privileges.
Some of these machines are people’s personal workstations, so please use the nice command.
| Machine | RAM | threads | speed | CPU | CPU date | GPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tern | 128 GB | 36 | 3.0 GHz | i9-10980XE | 2019 | (RTX 3090) on loan |
| godwit | 128 GB | 36 | 5.8 GHz | i9-13900KF | 2022 | (RTX 4090) on loan |
PLSE-managed PLSE machines:
These do not use standard CSE credentials, and are not connected to the CSE file system. For an account on either machine, send a username and public key to Gus Smith.
You can only log into these machines from the UW network. To log in from elsewhere, first log into a CSE machine, and from there log in to the PLSE-managed machine.
| Machine | RAM | threads | speed | CPU | CPU date | OS | gcc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| warfa | 32 GB | 8 | 4.0 GHz | i7-4790K | 2014 | Debian 9 | 5.5.0 |
| pipsqueak | 64 GB | 32 | 4.0 GHz | Threadripper 1950X | 2017 | Ubuntu 18.04 | 7.5.0 |
| honu | 96 GB | 40 | 2.2 GHz | Xeon Silver 4114 | 2017 | CentOS 7 | 7.3.1 |
There might also be a machine whale.cs.washington.edu. If so, it should be documented here.
There is a 2019 13-inch Macbook Air (16GB, 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel i5, Sonoma 14.4.1) located in the lab area that is sometimes used for playing music. This machine can be borrowed or set up for remote login via ssh on request. Please do not store sensitive data on this machine.
Large-scale compute
The Hyak HPC cluster contains thousands of CPUs and GPUs. A research group needs to buy in to it.
Undergraduates and BS/MS students
UW undergraduates do not get a login account on the research machines. Use PLSE-managed machines or your own computer.
BS/MS sutdents can get a login account on the research machines during any quarter in which they are doing research for credit.
Permissions
The Unix groups pl_gang and se control access to some old
repositories and services. To join, ask Mike, Dan, Zach, or Gilbert
to add you.
There are additional Unix groups for certain research projects.
Updating this webpage
The information in the tables can be obtained using the following bash command:
for hostname in recycle bicycle tricycle bam boom buffalo godwit honu tern warfa pipsqueak ; do
echo ${hostname} ; ssh ${hostname}.cs.washington.edu "${COMMAND}"
done
where you first do one of the following:
CPU: COMMAND="cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name | head -1; cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name | wc -l"
RAM: COMMAND="cat /proc/meminfo | head -1"
OS: COMMAND="cat /etc/redhat-release"
gcc: COMMAND="gcc --version | head -1"
Cpu date is from http://www.cpu-world.com.