THE single most powerful machine in the lab. Probably even outpaces the Cluster simply because GPU and the Cluster is broken half the time. Duke and ASM are little babies compared to this bad boy.
Technical specifications
Field
Value
Server Type
It's a desktop (a documentation writer's worst nightmare)
CPU
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core Processor
RAM
64 GB
GPU
3x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Networking
Ethernet must be connected to the topmost Ethernet port
Hard Disks
1TB SSD
OS
Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS
History
Snowy was a purchase order as part of Arya Kumar's 2019 Senior Research project. He went through a bunch of different names as the case kept getting delayed in the mail, eventually arriving 3 months late.
Snowy is currently sitting in the HPC rack on top of the HPC nodes. Its ethernet cable comes from the Sun Rack and power is a mess.
Trivia
Snowy was supposed to have 4x NVIDIA RTX 2080, but there wasn't enough room in the case; the fans on the bottom take up too much space.