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Revision as of 11:19, 2 November 2022
Welcome To Viper!
Viper is the University of Hull's supercomputer and is located on-site with its own dedicated team to administrate it and support users.
New user who already knows what Viper is? Skip to Quickstart or a Returning user looking for further information? Further Topics
What is a Supercomputer?
A supercomputer has a much higher level of processing power than a general purpose computer.
Viper has 180 compute nodes, each with 28 processing cores and 128GB of memory. Additionally Viper has 4 high memory nodes with 1TB of memory, 4 GPU nodes, and 2 Visualisation nodes.
Why is Viper useful?
- Many jobs can be run at once
- These jobs can be split into tasks and run in parallel
- Or these jobs can be run with many different scenarios in parallel
- Using Viper frees up your personal computer
- It can complete tasks that your personal computer may not have the resources for
Who might use Viper?
Viper is currently being used for:
- Astrophysics
- BioEngineering
- Business School
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Computation Linguistics
- Geography
- And many more
Quickstart
New to Viper? Here is a step by step guide to help you run your first job.
Apply for an account (campus only)
Support
Further Topics
Additional information on more specific topics.