The Iridis Compute Cluster

The current Iridis 3 is our third generation cluster and  is one of the largest computational facilities in the UK. Iridis provides High Performance Computing facilities in a professionally managed service environment and is available to the University's entire research community.

Access to Iridis

Iridis is primarily designed as a batch service for users who need to run either distributed memory parallel jobs, or multiple resource-intensive sequential jobs. If you are a researcher or postgraduate student and think that you have a good case for using Iridis, please fill in the online application form.  

Iridis Components:

  • 1008 Intel Nehalem compute nodes with two 4-core processors;
  • 8064 processor-cores providing over 72 TFlops;
  • Standard compute nodes have 22 GB of RAM per node;
  • 32 high-memory nodes with 45 GB of RAM per node;
  • All nodes are connected to a high speed disk system with 110 TB of storage;
  • All nodes are connected to an InfiniBand network for interprocess communication;
  • Cluster is accessed via advanced scheduling and management system from Adaptive Computing;