the Maxwell-Cluster is a resource dedicated to parallel and multi-threaded application, which can use at least some of the specific characteristics. In addition to serving as a medium scale High-Performance-Cluster, Maxwell incorporates resources for Photon Science data analysis, resources of CFEL, CSSB, Petra4, the European XFEL...
The Maxwell-Cluster is composed of core partitions (maxcpu, maxgpu, short) and group specific partitions.
The Maxwell-Cluster is primarily intended for parallel computation making best use of the multi-core architectures, the infiniband low-latency network, fast storage and available memory. Information how to get access to the cluster can be found here or get started.
The entire cluster is managed by SLURM scheduler. Different rules apply to different partitions. See Partitions and Access pages for details.
- To get started, please have a look at the Getting Started page!
- The Compute infrastructure page provides a list of currently available nodes & configurations.
- The Partitions page provides a quick overview of the nodes, capacities, features and limits of the individual partitions.
Read the documentation! It should cover at least the essentials. If you come across incorrect or outdated information: please let us know!
Contact
For any questions, problems, suggestions please contact our ticket system: maxwell.service@desy.de
All Announcements will be sent via maxwell-user@desy.de.
We strongly recommend that all maxwell-users subscribe to the mailing list. Only user of the maxcpu partition are automatically added.
Important licensing issues
Please make sure, to carefully read the licenses and terms of use whenever downloading or installing software or using external services.
Any usage restriction like "free for academic use" might or might not apply at DESY. Please get in touch with maxwell.service@desy.de if in doubt.
Please have a look at the page on licensing issues (requires login).