What is Roar Collab?

Roar Collab is the newest high performance research computing cluster managed by ICDS. Designed with collaboration in mind, the Roar Collab environment allows for more frequent software updates and hardware upgrades to keep pace with researchers’ changing needs.

Detailed System Specifications

Roar Collab operates Basic, Standard, and High Memory cores to support Penn State research. Single GPU (both A100 and P100) and Multi-Instance GPU compute is also available.

Need specifics on the core types and configurations, storage, and networking available on the cluster? Consult this page for details:

Roar Collab System Specifications

IMPORTANT: System specifications and available resources change regularly and these details may become out of date without notice. Contact ICDS if you have questions.

Roar Collab Software

The Roar Collab computing environment operating system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

The applications in the software stack include security monitoring software, batch schedulers (e.g., slurm), compilers, file transfer programs, and communication libraries (e.g., MPI, OpenMP). The stack also contains software applications commonly used by researchers, such as MATLAB, COMSOL, R, and Python, as well as programs for performing specialized tasks, such as Abaqus, Quantumwise, and TopHat.

Storage

ICDS provides over 20 PB of storage. This includes High Performance Storage and Archive capability that supports users’ processing and research needs for data storage.

Active storage mounted to compute resources and designed for actively used files and datasets, and Archival storage separate from compute resources designed for long term storage and infrequently used files and data sets, is available in 5TB increments.