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About Legacy

WARNING: These are the archives, not current information

These pages contain information about Legacy, a USD supercomputer that is no longer available, and other information that is no longer in use. It is kept as a reference for the maintenance of records, and in case of future need.

The Legacy Supercomputer was acquired in 2006 through USD’s Institutional Development Awardfrom the National Institutes of Health. It was expanded in 2009 and 2011 with additional NIH funding, and the last expansion in 2013 was funded by the college of Arts and Sciences. Legacy's user base has grown from a small cohort of bioinformatics faculty in 2006 to virtually all Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics disciplines with emerging use cases in the humanities.

Legacy is named after the 'Legacy' sculpture on USD's Vermillion campus.

Legacy runs the CentOS Linux operating system and is made up of 680 AMD Opteron CPU cores with 70TB of shared network storage.

The hardwear specifications for Legacy vary by node and are as follows:

Overview

680 Processing cores, 29 compute nodes, 1 login node, 1 management node

Processors

4-core, 12-core, and 16-core AMD Opteron

RAM

32GB - 128GB per node

Storage

133GB -890GB local scratch disk per node 70TB centrally-shared network storage

Network

Dedicated gigabit Ethernet compute and storage networks

Details

Compute nodes 16 through 23

Each node contains:

2x Quad Core AMD Opteron 2356 processors (8 total cores)

32GB RAM

133GB local scratch disk

Compute nodes 24 through 30

Each node contains:

2x 12-Core AMD Opteron 6172 processors (24 total cores)

96GB RAM

890GB local scratch disk

Compute nodes 31 through 44

Each node contains:

2x 16-Core AMD Opteron 6272 processors (32 total cores)

128GB RAM

890GB local scratch disk