Eagle Computing System

Eagle is a high-performance computing (HPC) system at NREL. Learn whether it has the capabilities to meet your research modeling, simulation, and visualization needs.

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System Architecture

Eagle is configured to run compute-intensive and parallel computing jobs. It is a cluster comprised of 2604 nodes (servers) that run the Linux operating system (Red Had Linux or the derivative CentOS distribution), with a peak performance of 8 PetaFLOPS.

The nodes are connected to each other and to storage by a high-speed 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand network. All nodes and storage are connected using an enhanced 8-dimensional hypercube topology that provides a bisection bandwidth of 26.4 terabytes/s.

Eagle has Network File Systems for home directories and application software as well as a 14 petabyte high-speed Lustre file system for parallel I/O.

System Configuration

Learn more about the Eagle's nodes, processors, interconnect, and file systems.

Running Jobs

Learn how to run jobs on Eagle.

Software

Learn about the software and tools available to use on Eagle.

Data Sets

Learn about the renewable energy resource data sets available via Eagle.

LEARN HOW TO GET STARTED

If you're a new Eagle user, follow our guidance for how to use this HPC system at NREL. We have instructions for those with prior HPC experience and for those with no or limited experience.

Learn How

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