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

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GPU Node

1

CPUs

dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series

GPUs

2x Nvidia Tesla P100 16GB

RAM

192GB

SSD

240GB

GPU002-GPU006

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GPU Node

5

CPUs

dual 12-core SkyLake 5000 series

GPUs

1x Nvidia Tesla V100 32GB

RAM

192GB

SSD

240GB

GPU007-GPU008

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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

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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

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