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GradEA Computing Cluster

The GradEA computing cluster (gradea.uci.edu) has been retired.

GradEA Retirement

After a thorough review of GradEA's usage and hardware, OIT made the decision to retire the GradEA computing cluster; the cluster was officially retired at the end of the 2007 Fall Quarter. OIT invited all GradEA users to submit feedback about GradEA, as well as how OIT might best reinvest the time and money spent maintaining the system. Announcements will be made in the future about how OIT will continue to support graduate students at UCI.

The GradEA head node and disk storage have been left on-line to allow graduate students time to migrate their files to another computing system. The GradEA cluster nodes have been taken off-line. The oldest nodes have been sent to salvage while the newer AMD nodes were merged into the public queue of the MPC cluster.

What was GradEA?

The GradEA computing cluster was for UCI graduate student use. GradEA consisted of 11 dual Intel Xeon 2.0 GHz nodes and 8 AMD Opteron nodes setup as a Beowulf Cluster. Students had access to 700 GB (Gigabytes) of disk storage for work related projects in the /workspace directory.