Computing Facilities

The Department of Statistics offers state-of-the-art computing facilities for teaching and research purposes, overseen by the Statistical Laboratory Management Committee.

• PC Facilities:
  • Two Statistical/Risk Management Science Computer Laboratories house 114 PCs for undergraduate and postgraduate student use.
  • Each postgraduate student is equipped with an All-In-One desktop PC featuring an Intel Core i7 CPU and 64 GB of main memory.
  • Four Bloomberg terminals are accessible for student and staff use.
  • All PCs run on Microsoft Windows 11/10 Enterprise Edition and come pre-installed with common applications like Microsoft 365/Office 2016 Professional Plus, MATLAB, R, SAS and IBM SPSS Statistics. Printing services are available on each PC.
• High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster:
  • The department offers HPC services for faculty and students requiring intensive computations, supported by a high-performance Linux cluster. The cluster is utilized for solving intricate computational problems and supports big data research activities in fields like genomic, bio-informatics and so on.
  • Current Cluster Configuration:
    1 x GPU node with 4 x NVIDIA A100 (80GB), dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 CPU @ 3.8GHz and 1TB memory
    1 x GPU node with 6 x NVIDIA 4090D (24GB), dual Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y CPU @ 4.1GHz and 1TB memory
    1 x GPU node with 1 x NVIDIA A800 (80GB), dual Intel Xeon Gold 6334 CPU @ 3.6GHz and 1TB memory
    1 x GPU node with 8 x NVIDIA A100 (40GB), dual AMD Rome 7742 CPU @ 2.25GHz and 1TB memory
    4 x GPU nodes with 3 x NVIDIA Tesla V100 (32GB), dual Intel Xeon Gold 6254 CPU @ 3.1GHz and 256GB memory
    1 x GPU node with 3 x NVIDIA Tesla V100(32GB), dual Intel Xeon Gold 6244 CPU @ 3.6GHz and 512GB memory
    1 x GPU node with 2 x NVIDIA Tesla P100 (16GB), dual Intel Xeon Gold 6132 CPU @ 2.6GHz and 512GB memory
    3 x Large memory compute nodes with dual Intel Xeon Gold 6246R CPU @ 3.4GHz and 1.5TB memory
    10 x compute nodes with dual Intel Xeon Gold 6246R CPU @ 3.4GHz and 256GB memory
    1 x compute node with dual Intel Xeon Gold 6244 CPU @ 3.6GHz and 512GB memory
    7 x compute nodes with 4 Intel Xeon Gold 6128 CPU @ 3.4GHz and 128GB memory
    3 x compute nodes with dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 CPU @ 2.6GHz and 128GB memory
    A Lustre File System with capacity 253TB
  • The cluster comprises 1164 CPU cores, approximately 14.25TB memory and 36 professional-grade NVIDIA A100(80GB)/ 4090D(24GB)/ A800(80GB)/ A100(40GB)/ Tesla V100(32GB)/ Tesla P100(16GB) GPUs to facilitate large-scale data analytics computations.

Our university also provides the following computing facilties/services:

• CUHK WebMail Service
• University Printing Service
• CUHK Wi-Fi service
• CUHK University-wide Softwares, coordinated by ITSC
• HPC service for research computing, provided through Information Technology Services Centre (ITSC).

Online Computing Resources

• Statistics Online Computational Resource from UCLA
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
• Tutorials of C-C++-R (in Statistics), from Harvard University
• The R Project for Statistical Computing
• The R Primer, from University of Washington
• Resources to help you learn and use R, from UCLA
• How to use Linux Server/HPC cluster