The PML high-performance computing system (xvii) is now open to students, researchers and faculty who have affiliation with the Department of Political Science. If you want an account to use the system, please email mpreece@mit.edu.

xvii specs:

• Dell PowerEdge T630
• CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 (x2)
  • 2 nodes, 14 cores (28 threads) per node
  • 128GB memory per node
• GPU: NVIDIA Tesla K40C
  • 12GB memory

These slides from the PML workshop on remote computing resources contain some basic and useful information about using xvii effectively.