Nikhef Grid Computing Cluster (NDPF)
Aim: Provide an overview of the Nikhef Grid Computing Cluster (NDPF).
Target audience: Users of the NDPF.
Introduction
The Grid computing cluster (commonly referred to as NDPF, or the Nikhef Data Processing Facility) is the distributed computing facility at Nikhef.
The NDPF is comprised of approximately 15000 CPU cores. All nodes are running a Debian 12 for its base operating system, however, all jobs run in a container either defined by the user (or collaboration's job submission script) or given the default container (Alma Linux 9).
Usage
Access and Use
The Grid cluster can be accessed from the interactive Stoomboot nodes, but submitting jobs to it is usually handled by a collaboration's Grid production system. As a user, you'll typically submit jobs to your collaboration's production system, which will then run some of them at Nikhef.
Cluster activity
Real-time activity for the grid cluster. Click on the graphs to enlarge the image.
Most active experiments
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Waiting jobs
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Job waiting times
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Note: The black line shows the time since the most recent job started. The purple line shows the mean time between job exits (inverse of the core rollover rate).
Other experiments
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Waiting jobs
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Job waiting times
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Note: The black line shows the time since the most recent job started. The purple line shows the mean time between job exits (inverse of the core rollover rate).
Links
Contact
- Email grid.sysadmin@nikhef.nl for questions about the Grid cluster.