The Physics and Astronomy Department (DIFA) hosts a parallel computing infrastructure directly accessible to its staff members. This infrastructure is made up of three different groups (or islands) of computing nodes with different hardware features and target usage:
For a more detailed description of the hardware features and access policies of the different groups of nodes see the Resources section.
The access to the infrastructure> is provided by frontend servers, that can be used to connect and transfer data to the cluster using the standard protocols ssh, scp, rsync.