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Weber is Purdue's specialty high performance computing cluster deployed in 2019 for data, applications, and research under export control regulations such as EAR, ITAR, or requiring compliance with the NIST SP 800-171.  

For purchase access questions, please contact the Export Controls office at exportcontrols@purdue.edu

For technical questions, please contact RCAC at rcac-help@purdue.edu

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Weber is named in honor of Mary Ellen Weber, scientist and former astronaut. More information about her life and impact on Purdue is available in a Biography of Weber.

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Weber consists of Dell compute nodes with two 64-core AMD EPYC 7713 processors, and Dell GPU nodes with two 8-core Intel Xeon 4110 processors and a Tesla V100 GPU. All nodes have 56 Gbps EDR Infiniband Interconnect.

All Weber nodes have 20 processor cores, 64 GB of RAM, and 56 Gbps Infiniband interconnects.

Weber nodes run CentOS 7 and use SLURM as the batch system for resource and job management. The application of operating system patches occurs as security needs dictate. All nodes allow for unlimited stack usage, as well as unlimited core dump size (though disk space and server quotas may still be a limiting factor).

On Weber, the following set of compiler, math library, and message-passing library for parallel code are recommended:

• Intel
• MKL
• Intel MPI

This compiler and these libraries are loaded by default. To load the recommended set again:

$ module load rcac

To verify what you loaded:

$ module list

Biography of Mary Ellen Weber

Mary Ellen Weber is a Purdue alumna, astronaut, chemist, business executive and speaker.

Dr. Weber grew up in Ohio and earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering with honors from Purdue in 1984. She went on to earn a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of California-Berkeley in 1988 and a master of business administration degree from Southern Methodist University in 2002.

Dr. Weber was selected by NASA to become an astronaut in 1992. She served on two space shuttle missions, STS-70 Discovery in 1995 and STS-101 Atlantis in 2000, traveling a total of 297 earth orbits and 7.8 million miles. On the Discovery mission, Dr. Weber successfully deployed a $200 million NASA communications satellite to its orbit 22,000 miles above Earth and performed biotechnology research related to colon cancer.

On the Atlantis mission, which was the third shuttle mission devoted to the construction of the International Space Station, Dr. Weber operated the shuttle's 60-foot robotic arm to maneuver spacewalking crewmembers along the Station's surface and directed the transfer of more than three thousand pounds of equipment.

In addition to her work in the Astronaut Corps, Dr. Weber held a variety of other positions within NASA, including working as the Legislative Affairs liaison at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal.

After leaving NASA, Dr. Weber was the Vice President for Government Affairs and Policy for nine years at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She is the founder of Stellar Strategies, LLC, consulting in strategic communications, technology innovation and high-risk operations. She has over 20 years of experience as a speaker and has been a keynote speaker at many conferences and a frequent TV news guest.

Dr. Weber is an active competitive skydiver, who has logged nearly 6,000 skydives and won two dozen medals at the U.S. National Skydiving Championships.

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