04.05.2026: The ROBIN cluster will be in maintenance on 10.06.2026.
RVS sessions on ROBIN overlapping with the maintenance window
will not start. If your sessions are pending, submit them with a shorter
runtime or to another cluster.
Reminders:
zsh shell is not currently supported on RVS, as described in our
documentation.
News:
09.04.2024: The hardware on Robin has been upgraded, replacing the
NVIDIA A30 GPUs with more powerful NVIDIA A40 GPUs. Up to 2 sessions
can now share a single GPU. See this link for additional information.
06.11.2023: the RStudio session is now available on the Robin cluster.
Check the description of RStudio sessions here for additional information.
16.10.2023: The Robin cluster and the Generic Jupyter Lab option have
been discussed during a Meet MPCDF presentation. The slides of the talk
are available here.
12.10.2023: A new Generic Jupyter Lab software has been added to
the options for the "Lab" interface. This re-designed Jupyter Lab interface
allows for several kernels to be available via Jupyter, without depending
on any Anaconda module available on the cluster.
