Cluster Resources Gollum

Gollum


Gollum as depicted in Rankin/Bass Productions 'The Hobbit'[1]

"Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became an important supporting character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit[1] of the River-folk, who lived near the Gladden Fields.[2] Originally known as Sméagol, he was corrupted by the One Ring and later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat".[3]"[2]

Gollum is also the name of our computational resource. As with the J. R. R. Tolkien character and its various depictions in media, caution must be taken when dealing with Gollum because it is not clear whether it is here to help or hurt you.

Cluster Status

CPU Availability GPU Availability

Queue Length:

Queue Length

Partition Availability

    Thu Oct 7 14:45:02 EDT 2021

PARTITION       CPUS(A/I/O/T) 

brooks*         1217/219/204/1640   
frank           584/230/104/918     
gpu             1213/203/204/1620   
gpu2080         0/192/0/192         
gputest         0/40/0/40           
smaltr          4/14/0/18           
test            0/40/0/40           
walter          40/0/0/40           
wymore          325/55/20/400       
zim2080         96/0/0/96           
zimamd          528/16/256/800      
zimgpu          0/20/0/20           
zimintel        693/287/28/1008     
zimopt          616/56/0/672

A - Active, I - Idle, O - Offline, T - Total

Cluster Description

The cluster has over 6000 CPU cores, more than 300 GPGPUs, .75 petabytes of disk storage with an additional petabyte of tape storage. Jobs are managed by the SLURM scheduler.

GPUs

Multiple generations of NVIDIA GPGPUs are available, but the majority of the GPGPUs are:

  • GTX 1080 Ti

    • NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
    We have ordered 110 NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti's which are slowly arriving in small batches and are available in the following partitions: gpu, frank.

    • Cores: 2560
    • Clock: 1607MHz
    • Memory: 8GB
    • Bandwidth: 320GB/sec

    See here for more information on the GTX 1080 Ti.

  • GTX 980

    • NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti
    There are approximately 180 NVIDIA GTX 980 cards in the GPU partition.

    • Cores: 2048
    • Clock: 1126MHz
    • Memory: 4GB
    • Bandwidth: 224GB/sec

    See here for more information on the GTX 980 Ti.

CPUs

Multiple generations of Intel and AMD processors are available including:

  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz

    • Intel Xeon E5-2650
    Availible in the following partitions: brooks, frank, wymore, gpu, twentycore

    • Cores: 10
    • Clock: 2.3GHz
    • Cache: 25MB
    • Bus Speed: 9.6GT/sec

    See here for more information on the Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3.

  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz

    • Intel Xeon E5-2670
    Available in the following partitions: parallel, sixteencore

    • Cores: 8
    • Clock: 2.6GHz
    • Cache: 20MB
    • Bus Speed: 8GT/sec

    See here for more information on the Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz.

  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz

    • Intel Xeon E5645
    Available in the following partitions:

    • Cores: 6
    • Clock: 2.4GHz
    • Cache: 12MB
    • Bus Speed: 5.86GT/sec

    See here for more information on the Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz.

  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz

    • Intel E5520
    Available in the following partitions: guest, eightcore

    • Cores: 4
    • Clock: 2.26GHz
    • Cache: 8MB
    • Bus Speed: 5.86GT/sec

    See here for more information on the Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz.

  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2683 v3 @ 2.00GHz

    • Intel Xeon E5-2683
    Availible in the following partitions: zimmerman, zimintel

    • Cores: 14
    • Clock: 2GHz
    • Cache: 35MB
    • Bus Speed: 9.6GT/sec

  • AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6274

    • AMD Opteron 6274
    Available in the following partitions: zimmerman(PBS)

    • Cores: 16
    • Clock: 2.2GHz

Storage

      Internal Disk Drive

    • Local - Each node has an internal disk on the order of 400GB for use as scratch space. The scratch space is accessible via the environment variable ${SLURM_LOCAL_SCRATCH} and is deleted on completion of the job. Scratch spaces are not backed up.

      • Lustre File System

    • Lustre - Each node has access via 1Gb Ethernet to a 38 TB Lustre filesystem. The Lustre scratch space is accessible via the environment variable: ${SLURM_REMOTE_SCRATCH} and is deleted approximately 10 days after a job completes. Scratch spaces are not backed up. More information about Luster can be found here.

      • Home Directores

    • Home Directories - The cluster currently has over 572TB of storage in the home directory pool which is available to the nodes via 1Gb Ethernet.

      • Tape Library

    • Tape - Home directories are backed up to a near line 600 slot tape storage system.

Infiniband

    • Nodes in the brooks, frank, wymore, twentycore, and gpu partitions have access to FDR Infiniband. More information on Infiniband can be found here.