Dante

Dante and Inferno are two compute servers available for general research applications. 

Dante is a Sun Fire v480 system running Solaris 9 which provides Virginia Tech researchers with access to high performance computing on a Sun Microsystems hardware platform and supports IMSL, SAS, MATLAB, and R which are not currently available on the VT compute server Inferno. The Dante system currently contains:

• Four 900 MHz CPUs
• 16 GB memory
• Two 36 GB fiber-channel drives
• External storage on the Virginia Tech NAS.

Support

If you need assistance, contact 4Help by using the Help Request Form (http://4help.vt.edu/info/4help/request/escalate.asp) or by calling (540) 231-HELP (4357).

Obtaining an Account

Faculty and Graduate Students may obtain accounts on Dante by completing the web based SGI ALTIX System Account Request Application Form. As part of your application request, you will be asked for your name, PID, department,address, phone number, system resource requirements, and for an abstract describing the research for which the acccount will be used. The inclusion of citations to related journal publications is encouraged.  Submitted abstracts may be made available on-line at some future date.

Note:  By default, an account on Dante will only be created if you require SAS, MATLAB, Gauss, or the IMSL libraries which are not currently available on Inferno; otherwise, an account will be created for you on Inferno.  Accounts on both Inferno and Dante will be created if you require applications found on both systems. Shared disk space between the two systems will be provided to facilitate file access.

Accounts will typically be created within one workday of submission, but, occasionally, up to one week may required to complete user verification and account processing.