ECE IT is launching a group of Linux GPU machines students can use for academic purposes.

Over the past several years, we’ve received quite a few requests from students for GPU-enabled machines. We are initially making six machines available. We will be using this initial launch to gauge demand.

The lab is comprised of the following machines:

  • Dell Precision 3630 Tower workstations. These workstations are named sequentially, starting with linux-gpu-001.ece.uw.edu and ending with linux-gpu-006.ece.uw.edu .
    • Specifications:
      • Dell Precision 3630 Tower running AlmaLinux 9
      • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (1920 CUDA cores)
      • Intel Core i7-9700 3.0GHz (Cannon Lake) (8 cores)
      • 32GB RAM (and 192GB swap)
      • 512GB Samsung SSD
    • Access to the GPU Lab machines is currently remote only – use SSH and/or RDP.
  • The CUDA Toolkit is installed, as are the cuDNN, cuBLAS, and TensorRT libraries.
  • The lab workstations use the same networked Linux home directories as the ECE Linux Lab (VLSI/IS Lab). This means if you save a file in your home directory while working on one machine (in either lab), you’ll have that same file available to you from all other lab machines.
  • These workstations are intended for coursework. Research tasks are not to be run on these computers.

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