> SMCS¶
The SMCS server is dedicated to statistical applications. It is managed in collaboration with SMCS and offers the following services:
When connected through SSH, you can use the server as a classical Linux machine, with the possibility to run R and Stata in command line mode.
With twice 32 CPU cores at a maximum frenqency of 4.4GHz and 384GB of memory, it can perform larger statistical analysis than any laptop on the market would be able to handle.
Note
To have access to SMCS, you will need to tick the box ‘Statistical computing’ when you create your CISM account.
> Brufence¶
Brufence is dedicated to Matlab use. It was acquired thanks to collaborations with the Department of Mathematical Engineering and the Louvain School of Management.
To use Matlab on Brufence, you can connect to it through ssh and run Matlab in command line mode.
Several versions of Matlab are installed, which can be selected using modules. For more information about the use of modules, please refer to this documentation about modules.
Long-running Matlab processes can be run in the background with the nohup
command, or with a terminal multiplexer such as Screen, Zellij or
tmux, but such workload is more suitable for clusters.
Beside the classical use of Matlab to perform numerical computations, the machines can also be used to compile Matlab code to standalone executables that can be run on the clusters without the need to have Matlab installed. More information on this can be found in the slides of the Matlab training session.
Brufence also has a licence of Magma installed, financed by the Research Institute in Mathematics and Physics.