Amarel, the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC)’s high-performance research computing and data cluster, is debuting its newest phase, named Clark. Now available to the Rutgers community, this round of hardware, compute node, and system upgrades for Amarel will provide researchers with increased power and storage.
Benefits of the new Amarel phase, Clark
- Clark hardware significantly increases Amarel’s resources, doubling a standard node’s computing power from 256GB per node to 512GB per node.
- A limited number of high-memory (2TB/node) and NVIDIA 3x L40S GPU nodes will be available to Amarel users.
Costs to use Clark
While the Rutgers research community has general access to Amarel resources free of charge, Clark CPU node ownership can be purchased for $11,435 per node.
- The price of high-memory nodes is $18,735 per node.
- GPU nodes are priced at $30,755 per 3x L40S.
- One TB of complementary storage space will be included per node purchased.
- Amarel owners adding additional storage during the Clarkupgrade will be able to do so at a cost of approximately $123 per TB per year.
- Owners can purchase storage in flexible increments, ranging from a one-year minimum up to the full four-year node ownership term. They can pay for all four years upfront or extend the payment year by year until the term ends.
Learn more about the benefits of ownership and the Amarel pricing structure.
Need other research data storage solutions?
Researchers who require data storage but do not need high-performance computing power should investigate the new Rutgers Research Data Storage platform, which is the Office of Information Technology’s cost-optimized research data storage solution.
Get started
To get started with Amarel, sign up for a free account. To purchase nodes or for additional details about Clark, email klepping@rutgers.edu.