We have a large number of linux systems available. Some are available for general use, while some are for the use of specific research groups.

You can find a list of available linux systems on this page, along with the research group (“cluster”) they belong to and the amount of data disk storage.

• spartha.spa.umn.edu (also known as physics.umn.edu) is intended for general-purpose interactive computing for the entire department, and for short jobs. We do not encourage running of long cpu-intensive jobs on this system, but it may be used for shorter ones (for long ones, we suggest using condor batch system).
• jura.spa.umn.edu is a Tru64 Alphaserver for general departmental use.
• Various research groups (HEP, Nuclear Theory, Cosmology, etc) have their own systems and should use them accordingly. We don't restrict access to these machines by other users; please don't abuse this. If you have a need which might be met by running jobs on another groups' systems, you should arrange permission with them before doing so.
• Students paying the IT computing fee (that is, physics majors and pre-qualifier graduate students) have the use of systems in the Physics Computer Lab.