About Lawrence

Please Note: These docs are being updated due to a cluster upgrade and may not be accurate.

The Lawrence Supercomputer was acquired through a combination of state and federal funding: a FY16 SD Board of Regents Research And Development Innovation award, and National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation award OAC-1626516.

Overview

Lawrence runs the Rocky8 Linux operating system and is made up of over 2,000 CPU cores, including systems with 1.5TB of memory, GPU accelerators, and over 400TB of shared high-speed data storage accessible via a 56GB FDR Infiniband network. Lawrence has an estimated performance of over 60TFLOPS.

Specifics

The hardware specifications for Lawrence vary by node and are as follows:

Node001-Node080
General compute nodes	80
CPUs	dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series
RAM	96 GB
SSD	240 GB

Node081-Node085
General compute nodes	4
CPUs	dual 16-core Cascade lake 5000 series
RAM	96 GB
SSD	240 GB

Node086-Node093
General compute nodes	8
CPUs	dual 16-core Ice lake 6000 series
RAM	96 GB
SSD	240 GB

GPU001	__
GPU Node	1
CPUs	dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series
GPUs	2x Nvidia Tesla P100 16GB
RAM	192GB
SSD	240GB

GPU002-GPU006	__
GPU Node	5
CPUs	dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series
GPUs	1x Nvidia Tesla V100 32GB
RAM	192GB
SSD	240GB

GPU007-GPU008	__
GPU Node	2
CPUs	dual 12-core Ice Lake 6000 series
GPUs	1x Nvidia Ampere A100 80GB
RAM	128GB
SSD	240GB

Viz001
Viz Node	1
CPUs	dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series
RAM	192GB
SSD	240GB
Graphics Adapter	Nvidia GTX 1080i 11GB

Himem001, Himem002	__
Large Memory Node	2
CPUs	dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series
RAM	1.5TB
SSD	2x 240GB, mirrored

Login01
Login Node	1
CPUs	dual 16-core SkyLake 5000 series
RAM	96GB
SSD	2x 240GB, mirrored

Login02
Login Node	1
CPUs	dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series
RAM	96GB
SSD	2x 240GB, mirrored

Head
Management node	1
CPUs	Dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series
RAM	96GB
SSD	2x 240GB, mirrored

Zfs01, Zfs02
Storage nodes	2x ZFS, 432TB Raw total
Storage configuration	RAIDZ2 across the 2x 216TB
Primary Network	FDR IB, 5:1 over subscription
Ethernet in-band management network	1GB
Ethernet out-of-band management network	1GB