Hopper (née Junior) is Vassar’s high-performance computing cluster. A computer cluster is a cluster of identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with installed libraries and programs, allowing the processing to be shared among them. The result is a high-performance parallel computing cluster comprising inexpensive personal computer hardware. All of Vassar’s faculty and students are invited to use Hopper for their high-performance computing needs.
Hopper comprises seven computational nodes:
- Two SuperMicro nodes with 48 CPUs and 64 GB RAM per node
- Five Dell EMC nodes with 64 CPU cores (128 CPUs with threading) and 512 GB RAM per node
The system also provides 80 TB of storage space.
To request access to Hopper, complete the following permission form. It will be reviewed by the ACCAS Director and the Hopper Systems Administrator.
Click here to fill out the Hopper HPC Access Request Form
Please note that access to this resource was moved behind the Vassar College VPN in Spring 2023. Therefore you must either be on the campus VPN (if external to the College) or on the campus network in order to connect to this research system once you have been granted access to the system. Please see the CIS VPN Request page.
Hopper User Guide
Click here to download the Hopper Manual
Written/edited by Leah Isseroff Bendavid, based on and including excerpts from the PSC Bridges User Guide (https://www.psc.edu/bridges/user-guide) and the Weizmann Institute Chemfarm User Guide (http://www.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/chemfarm/home).]