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- 2022-11-17: Converted Aurora from LXD to KVM
- 2021-03-11: Upgraded Aurora to Ubuntu 20.04, JupyterLab to 3.0
- 2020-09-04: Aurora is now running a Globus Endpoint
- 2020-08-20: Upgraded R to 4.0.2
- 2020-03-19: Upgraded JupyterLab to 2.0.1
Resources
Hardware Host (Hulk)
- Dell PowerEdge T630 server
- Dual Intel Xeon E5-2699a v4 processors
- 88 logical cores (vCPUs) / 44 physical cores with hyperthreading
- 3.6 GHz Turbo / 2.4 GHz minimum
- 55 MB Smartcache per processor
- 512 GB 2133 MHz ECC DDR4 memory
- Dual 10 GbE network connections to the internet and Ceph storage
Aurora Virtual Machine
- KVM virtual server on Hulk, shared only with Mazu
- 88 logical cores (vCPUs) / 44 physical cores with hyperthreading
- 256 GB memory static allocation
- 35 TB Ceph RBD storage (ZFS formatted)
Mazu Virtual Machine
- KVM virtual server on Hulk, shared only with Aurora
- 88 logical cores (vCPUs) / 44 physical cores with hyperthreading
- 128 GB memory static allocation
- 35 TB Ceph RBD storage (ZFS formatted)
Aurora Access
Aurora can be accessed at aurora.nceas.ucsb.edu via the following methods:
First connection
Note that for security reason we require that you reset your password at your first access to the server. It can only be done by connecting to the server via ssh. Please read this page about the steps to follow: First login to NCEAS analytical server
Aurora Software
- OS: Ubuntu Server Edition 20.04 LTS AMD64
- R 4.0
- RStudio Server 1.4
- JupyterLab 3.0
- Matlab 2018b
- AD Model Builder 11
- GCC 9.3
- Python 2.7 and 3.8
- Ruby 2.7
- OpenJDK 8 and 11
- Grass 7.8
- Gdal 3.2
- QGIS 3.16
- Octave 5.2
- Scilab 6.1
- Maxima 5.43
- Spyder 3.3
Troubleshooting