FarmShare Environments

FarmShare consists of several environments. Use the following guide to determine which environment is best suited for your task.

Low-intensity computing (cardinal.stanford.edu)

The cardinal systems are small, virtual machines best suited for low-intensity tasks including checking email and reading newsgroups, transferring files, or editing web pages. Long-running or compute-intensive jobs found running on these systems may be killed without warning to free system resources for intended tasks; use rice.stanford.edu or submit batch jobs for these instead.

General-purpose computing (rice.stanford.edu)

The rice systems are well-suited for general, interactive computing including most coursework, development, and other common computing tasks. They are also appropriate for long-running and/or compute- or memory-intensive tasks (e.g., mathematical and statistical analysis, physical simulation, parallel programming).

High-performance computing (wheat.stanford.edu, oat.stanford.edu)

The wheat and oat systems are intended for high-performance, non-interactive, and parallel computing. Like the rice systems, these systems are appropriate for long-running and/or compute- or memory-intensive tasks, but login is not permitted; batch jobs must be submitted from rice.stanford.edu using the Slurm job scheduling system.

See the FarmShare wiki for examples that run on wheat and oat systems.