Why use ACCRE?
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Researchers at Vanderbilt run their computing jobs on ACCRE for a wide variety of reasons.
- Getting more done in less time. The ACCRE environment is a shared resource, meaning researchers around campus purchase compute nodes that is then incorporated into the environment, but can then harvest idle cycles on other researchers’ hardware for performing many more computations than would be possible on a single machine.
- Accessing larger processor or memory resources. ACCRE CPUs are large multi-core processors, while a single compute node can be equipped with as much as 256GB of RAM, which is ideal for big data processing.
- It’s reliable. You don’t have to worry about your computer turning off in the middle of your computation job or restarting because there are updates available. With very rare interruptions, ACCRE is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- It’s available anywhere. You can submit a job from your lab station and check on your results from your office.
- You can share files and results with others. Since ACCRE is a shared system, collaborating with others is easy.