Computing for Education

The BDSRC provides computational resources for educational purposes. Students can use our high-performance computing service through the Internet 24/7.

※We've adopted new connection methods due to technical issues on previous system.

Get an Account

Lecturers in the College of Social Sciences NTU can request computing resources for their course students.
To apply, lecturers or TAs needs to send application, with attachment of the list of students (and lecturers or TAs, if needed) to our email ntubdsrc@ntu.edu.tw. The list must contain name, ID, email of the students.
Please allow three business days for a response. Once the application this accepted, we will provide connection information and students' default account/password to the applicant lecturer or TA.
The user accounts will be avaliable for two semesters, and be deleted afterward.

Get Support

Please refer to the instruction manual to get the tutorial of connection, setting-up, and softwares.
Besides, user support is available by email at ntubdsrc@ntu.edu.tw or phone at 02-33668300 #55808.

Hardware Configuration

Our computing system for education is composed of four high-end servers. The technical specifications of each server are as follows.

· Master
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R * 2
Avaliable Memory: 708Gi
Total Memory: 754Gi
Total cores: 32

· Node01
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R * 2
Avaliable Memory: 743Gi
Total Memory: 754Gi
Total cores: 32

· Node02
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R * 2
Avaliable Memory: 744Gi
Total Memory: 754Gi
Total cores: 32

· Node03
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R * 2
Avaliable Memory: 726Gi
Total Memory: 754Gi
Total cores: 32

In addition, we provide network-attached storage (NAS) with RAID 6 disk arrays. The total capacity usable for data storage is 80 terabytes.

Supported Software

StataNow/SE 19.5, R 3.6.3, Python 3.8.10, Julia 1.10.5, EViews 14

(For the demand of Matlab, please refer to the webpage of MATLAB, or Computing for Research.)