Today's personal computers are amazingly powerful. For rather moderate amounts of money you can get many cores, dozens of gigs of RAM and terabytes of storage. For many people the machine on/under their desk is therefore sufficient to perform all or most of their computing needs.
D-PHYS nodes
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Several compute nodes are available to anyone from D-PHYS: wald1 - wald6, plempy, sphinx. Just SSH in, but [[respect others|linux/how_to_handle_long_running_jobs/]].
Group / institute nodes
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Many research groups and institutes (for example IPA, ITP and IQE) own computation nodes for their members to use. As this is a rather long and fast-changing list, please ask your colleagues or us for the current situation in your group. Most of these machines are operated by ISG.
D-PHYS nodes
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D-PHYS currently operates several publicly available compute nodes: [plumpy](https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/08/new-computation-node-plumpy/), plempy, isis, sphinx, wald1..6. Just SSH in, but [[respect others|linux/how_to_handle_long_running_jobs/]].
