RWTHjupyter

Service Description

With RWTHjupyter the IT Center provides in collaboration with the Institute for Automation of Complex systems all users with access to an interactive computing platform.

Costs

The cluster has been initially funded by the Projekt Digitale Lehr-/Lerninfrastrukturen DH NRW in 2019 and is thereby provided cost-free to all students and employees of the RWTH.

Hardware

The RWTHjupyter cluster consists of 7 Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers with the following configuration:

7x Dell PowerEdge 740XD:

• Dual Socket Systems: 2x 16C / 32T Xeon Gold 5218 2,3 Ghz
• Redundant Dual 10 GigE links
• 768 GB DDR4 RAM / node (5.376 GB total)
• 100 TB SSD Storage in Ceph

Additionally, 1 of the nodes is equipped with:

• 2x NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPGPUs

Software Configuration

RWTHjupyter runs on a highly-available Kubernetes cluster using the Zero 2 JupyterHub project.

News

2020-04-21: Go-live of RWTHjupyter test phase

2020-02-28: Kick-off meeting of the RWTH Jupyter Working group

2020-01-24: The first nodes of the cluster have been provisioning at ITC Wendlinge

2019-11: A GPU extension for the cluster has been specified and ordered

2019-10: The cluster has been specified and ordered

2019-06 The RWTHjupyter proposal has been funded by the Project "Digitale Lehr-/Lerninfrastrukturen DH NRW"