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Unclassified Systems

Centennial is currently Up.

Centennial is an SGI ICE XA system located at the ARL DSRC. It has 1,784 standard compute nodes, 32 large-memory compute nodes, and 32 GPU compute nodes (a total of 1,848 compute nodes or 73,920 compute cores). It has 253 TBytes of memory and is rated at 2.6 peak PFLOPS.

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Node Configuration
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory GPU Accelerated
Total Cores | Nodes 960 | 24 71,360 | 1,784 1,280 | 32 1,280 | 32
Operating System RHEL
Cores/Node 40 40 + 1 GPU
(1 x 2,880 GPU cores)
Core Type Intel Xeon
E5-2698v4 Broadwell		 Intel Xeon
E5-2698v4 Broadwell
+NVIDIA Tesla K40P
Core Speed 2.2 GHz 2.6 GHz 2.2 GHz
Memory/Node 256 GBytes 128 GBytes 512 GBytes 256 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 252 GBytes 124 GBytes 508 GBytes 252 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Ethernet / InfiniBand
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest debug 1 Hour N/A User diagnostic jobs
Down arrow for decreasing priority transfer 48 Hours 1 Data transfer jobs
urgent 96 Hours N/A Designated urgent jobs by DoD HPCMP
staff 368 Hours N/A ARL DSRC staff testing only. System testing and user support
high 96 Hours N/A Designated high-priority projects by service/agency
frontier 168 Hours N/A Frontier projects only
cots 96 Hours N/A Abaqus, Fluent, and Cobalt jobs
interactive 12 Hours N/A Interactive jobs
standard-long 200 Hours N/A ARL DSRC permission required
standard 168 Hours N/A Normal user jobs
Lowest background 24 Hours User jobs that will not be charged against the project allocation
Conrad is currently Up.

Conrad is a Cray XC40 system located at the Navy DSRC. It has 1,523 standard compute nodes, 8 large-memory compute nodes, and 168 Xeon Phi compute nodes (a total of 1,699 compute nodes or 51,008 compute cores). It has 208 TBytes of memory and is rated at 2 peak PFLOPS.

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Node Configuration
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory Phi Accelerated
Total Cores | Nodes 192 | 6 48,736 | 1,523 256 | 8 2,016 | 168
Operating System SLES Cray Linux Environment
Cores/Node 32 12 + 1 Phi
(1 x 60 Phi cores)
Core Type Intel Xeon E5-2698v3 Intel Xeon E5-2696v2
+Intel Xeon 5120D Phi
Core Speed 2.3 GHz 2.4 GHz
+1.05 GHz
Memory/Node 256 GBytes 128 GBytes 512 GBytes 64 GBytes
+8 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 240 GBytes 125 GBytes 510 GBytes 63 GBytes
+7.5 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Ethernet Cray Aries / Dragonfly
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest urgent 24 Hours 768 Jobs belonging to DoD HPCMP Urgent Projects
Down arrow for decreasing priority frontier 168 Hours 16,000 Designated Frontier projects by DoD HPCMP
high 168 Hours 16,000 Jobs belonging to DoD HPCMP High Priority Projects
debug 30 Minutes 3,072 User diagnostic jobs
standard 168 Hours 8,000 Standard jobs
phi 168 Hours 3,200 Phi-accelerated jobs
bigmem 24 Hours 224 Large-memory jobs
transfer 48 Hours N/A Data transfer for user jobs
Lowest background 4 Hours 2,016 Unrestricted access - no allocation charge
Excalibur is currently Up.

Excalibur is a Cray XC40 system located at the ARL DSRC. It has 3,098 standard compute nodes, 32 large-memory compute nodes, and 32 GPU compute nodes (a total of 3,162 compute nodes or 101,184 compute cores). It has 421 TBytes of memory and is rated at 3.77 peak PFLOPS.

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Node Configuration
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory GPU Accelerated
Total Cores | Nodes 512 | 16 99,136 | 3,098 1,024 | 32 1,024 | 32
Operating System SLES Cray Linux Environment
Cores/Node 32 32 + 1 GPU
(1 x 2,880 GPU cores)
Core Type Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3
+NVIDIA Tesla K40
Core Speed 2.3 GHz 2.5 GHz
Memory/Node 256 GBytes 128 GBytes 512 GBytes 256 GBytes
+12 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 2 GBytes 126 GBytes 508 GBytes 252 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Ethernet / InfiniBand Cray Aries / Dragonfly Ethernet / InfiniBand
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest urgent 168 Hours N/A Designated urgent jobs by DoD HPCMP
Down arrow for decreasing priority high 168 Hours N/A Designated high-priority projects by service/agency
frontier 168 Hours N/A Frontier projects only
standard-long 200 Hours 512 Access available by request
debug 1 Hour N/A User diagnostic jobs
standard 168 Hours N/A Normal user jobs
transfer 48 Hours 1 Data transfer jobs
Lowest background 24 Hours 15,000 User jobs that will not be charged against the project allocation
Gaffney is currently Up.

Gaffney is an HPE SGI 8600 system located at the Navy DSRC. It has 704 standard compute nodes, 16 large-memory nodes, and 32 GPU-accelerated nodes (a total of 752 compute nodes or 36,096 compute cores). It has 154 TBytes of memory and is rated at 3.05 peak PFLOPS.

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Maintenance
Date / TimeDetails
2020 Sep 22 08:00 - 18:00 CT (Completed) System Maintenance
Node Configuration
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory GPU Accelerated
Total Cores | Nodes 384 | 8 33,792 | 704 768 | 16 1,536 | 32
Operating System RHEL
Cores/Node 48 48 + 1 GPU
(1 x 3,584 GPU cores)
Core Type Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 Intel Xeon Platinum 8168
+NVIDIA Tesla P100
Core Speed 2.7 GHz
Memory/Node 384 GBytes 192 GBytes 768 GBytes 384 GBytes
+16 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 380 GBytes 180 GBytes 744 GBytes 372 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Intel Omni-Path
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest urgent 24 Hours 768 Designated urgent projects by DoD HPCMP
Down arrow for decreasing priority frontier 168 Hours 14,400 Designated frontier projects by DoD HPCMP
high 168 Hours 15,840 Designated high-priority jobs by Service/Agency
debug 30 Minutes 2,400 User diagnostic jobs
standard 168 Hours 8,160 Normal priority user jobs
serial 168 Hours 1 Serial user jobs
gpu 24 Hours 48 GPU-accelerated jobs
transfer 48 Hours N/A Data transfer jobs
bigmem 96 Hours 288 Large-memory jobs
Lowest background 4 Hours 1,200 User jobs that will not be charged against the project allocation
Gordon is currently Up.

Gordon is a Cray XC40 system located at the Navy DSRC. It has 1,523 standard compute nodes, 8 large-memory compute nodes, and 168 Xeon Phi compute nodes (a total of 1,699 compute nodes or 51,008 compute cores). It has 208 TBytes of memory and is rated at 2 peak PFLOPS.

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Node Configuration
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory Phi Accelerated
Total Cores | Nodes 192 | 6 48,736 | 1,523 256 | 8 2,016 | 168
Operating System SLES Cray Linux Environment
Cores/Node 32 12 + 1 Phi
(1 x 60 Phi cores)
Core Type Intel Xeon E5-2698v3 Intel Xeon E5-2696v2
+Intel Xeon 5120D Phi
Core Speed 2.3 GHz 2.4 GHz
+1.05 GHz
Memory/Node 256 GBytes 128 GBytes 512 GBytes 64 GBytes
+8 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 240 GBytes 125 GBytes 510 GBytes 63 GBytes
+7.5 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Ethernet Cray Aries / Dragonfly
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest urgent 24 Hours 768 Jobs belonging to DoD HPCMP Urgent Projects
Down arrow for decreasing priority frontier 168 Hours 16,000 Designated Frontier projects by DoD HPCMP
high 168 Hours 16,000 Jobs belonging to DoD HPCMP High Priority Projects
debug 30 Minutes 3,072 User diagnostic jobs
standard 168 Hours 8,000 Standard jobs
phi 168 Hours 2,016 Phi-accelerated jobs
bigmem 24 Hours 224 Large-memory jobs
transfer 48 Hours N/A Data transfer for user jobs
Lowest background 4 Hours 3,200 Unrestricted access - no allocation charge
Koehr is currently Up.

Koehr is an HPE SGI 8600 system located at the Navy DSRC. It has 704 standard compute nodes, 16 large-memory nodes, and 32 GPU-accelerated nodes (a total of 752 compute nodes or 36,096 compute cores). It has 154 TBytes of memory and is rated at 3.05 peak PFLOPS.

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Node Configuration
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory GPU Accelerated
Total Cores | Nodes 384 | 8 33,792 | 704 768 | 16 1,536 | 32
Operating System RHEL
Cores/Node 48 48 + 1 GPU
(1 x 3,584 GPU cores)
Core Type Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 Intel Xeon Platinum 8168
+NVIDIA Tesla P100
Core Speed 2.7 GHz
Memory/Node 384 GBytes 192 GBytes 768 GBytes 384 GBytes
+16 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 380 GBytes 180 GBytes 744 GBytes 372 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Intel Omni-Path
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest urgent 24 Hours 768 Designated urgent projects by DoD HPCMP
Down arrow for decreasing priority frontier 168 Hours 14,400 Designated frontier projects by DoD HPCMP
high 168 Hours 15,840 Designated high-priority jobs by Service/Agency
debug 30 Minutes 2,400 User diagnostic jobs
standard 168 Hours 8,160 Normal priority user jobs
serial 168 Hours 1 Serial user jobs
gpu 24 Hours 48 GPU-accelerated jobs
transfer 48 Hours N/A Data transfer jobs
bigmem 96 Hours 288 Large-memory jobs
Lowest background 4 Hours 1,200 User jobs that will not be charged against the project allocation
Mustang is currently running in a degraded state.

Mustang is an HPE SGI 8600 system located at the AFRL DSRC. It has 1,128 standard compute nodes, 24 large-memory compute nodes, and 24 GPU compute nodes (a total of 1,176 compute nodes or 56,448 compute cores). It has 244 TBytes of memory and is rated at 4.88 peak PFLOPS.

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Maintenance
Date / TimeDetails
2020 Jul 17 16:11 ET - TBD (In Progress) Hardware Maintenance
Node Configuration
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory GPU Accelerated
Total Cores | Nodes 576 | 12 54,144 | 1,128 1,152 | 24 1,152 | 24
Operating System RHEL
Cores/Node 48 48 + 1 GPU
(1 x 3,584 GPU cores)
Core Type Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 Intel Xeon Platinum 8168
+NVIDIA Tesla P100
Core Speed 2.7 GHz
Memory/Node 384 GBytes 192 GBytes 768 GBytes 384 GBytes
+16 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 380 GBytes 180 GBytes 744 GBytes 372 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Intel Omni-Path
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest urgent 168 Hours 28,224 Jobs belonging to DoD HPCMP Urgent Projects
Down arrow for decreasing priority debug 1 Hour 1,152 User testing
high 168 Hours 28,224 Jobs belonging to DoD HPCMP High Priority Projects
frontier 168 Hours 28,224 Jobs belonging to DoD HPCMP Frontier Projects
standard 168 Hours 28,224 Standard jobs
HIE 24 Hours 96 Rapid response for interactive work
transfer 48 Hours 1 Data transfer for user jobs
Lowest background 120 Hours 48 Unrestricted access - no allocation charge
Onyx is currently Up.

Onyx is a Cray XC40/50 system. It has 4,810 standard compute nodes, 4 large-memory compute nodes, 32 GPU compute nodes, 32 Knights Landing (Phi) compute nodes, and 64 Machine Learning Accelerator (MLA) multi-GPGPU nodes (a total of 4,942 compute nodes or 217,128 compute cores). It is rated at 6.06 peak PFLOPS.

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Node Configuration
Login Nodes Compute Nodes
Standard Memory Large Memory KNL GPU Accelerated MLA_2 Accelerated MLA_10 Accelerated
Total Cores | Nodes 264 | 12 211,640 | 4,810 176 | 4 2,048 | 32 704 | 32 2,400 | 60 160 | 4
Operating System SLES Cray Linux Environment CentOS
Cores/Node 22 44 64 22 + 1 GPU
(1 x 3,584 CUDA cores)		 40 + 2 GPUs
(2 x 5,120 CUDA cores)		 40 + 10 GPUs
(10 x 5,120 CUDA cores)
Core Type Dual Intel E5-2699v4
Broadwell
(22 cores/socket)		 Intel Phi 7230
Knights Landing		 Intel E5-2699v4
Broadwell
+NVIDIA P100		 Dual Intel 6148
Skylake
(20 cores/socket)
+2 NVIDIA V100 SXM2		 Dual Intel 6148
Skylake
(20 cores/socket)
+10 NVIDIA V100 PCIe
Core Speed 2.8 GHz 1.3 GHz 2.8 GHz 2.4 GHz
Memory/Node 256 GBytes 128 GBytes 1 TByte 96 GBytes 256 GBytes
+16 GBytes		 192 GBytes
+2 x 16 GBytes		 768 GBytes
+10 x 32 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 8 GBytes 121 GBytes 991 GBytes 90 GBytes 247 GBytes
+16 GBytes		 172 GBytes
+2 x 16 GBytes		 735 GBytes
+10 x 32 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Ethernet Cray Aries InfiniBand
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max
Jobs		 Min Cores
Per Job		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest urgent 24 Hours N/A 22 7,260 Designated urgent jobs by DoD HPCMP
Down arrow for decreasing priority test 24 Hours N/A 22 N/A Staff-only testing
debug 1 Hour 4 22 11,484 User testing
HIE 24 Hours 2 22 110 Rapid response for interactive work
frontier_lg 24 Hours 2 7,261 143,968 Frontier projects only (large jobs)
frontier_lw 168 Hours 15 22 15,708 Frontier projects only (long walltime)
frontier_sm 48 Hours 70 22 7,260 Frontier projects only (small jobs)
high_lg 24 Hours 2 8,449 105,820 Designated high-priority jobs by Service/Agency (large jobs)
high_lw 168 Hours 3 22 10,824 Designated high-priority jobs by Service/Agency (long walltime)
high_sm 24 Hours 70 22 8,448 Designated high-priority jobs by Service/Agency (small jobs)
frontier_md 96 Hours 2 15,709 34,540 Frontier projects only (medium sized, long walltime)
MLA 24 Hours N/A 1 N/A Jobs for the GPU (Pearl) nodes
standard_lg 24 Hours 2 7,261 105,820 Normal priority jobs (large jobs)
standard_lw 168 Hours 3 22 5,808 Normal priority jobs (long walltime)
standard_sm 24 Hours 70 22 7,260 Normal priority jobs (small jobs)
transfer 48 Hours 6 1 1 Data transfer jobs. Access to the long-term storage
Lowest background 4 Hours 6 22 7,260 Unrestricted access - no allocation charge
SCOUT is currently Up.

SCOUT is an IBM Power9 system located at the ARL DSRC. It has 22 Training nodes, each with 6 nVidia V100 GPUs, 128 Inference nodes, each with 4 nVidia T4 GPUs, and 2 Visualization nodes with 4 nVidia V100 GPUs each (a total of 152 compute nodes or 6,080 cores). It has 45 TBytes of memory.

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Maintenance
Date / TimeDetails
2020 Oct 20 07:00 - Oct 22 07:00 ET System Maintenance
Node Configuration
Login Nodes GPU Accelerated Compute Nodes
Training Inference Visualization
Total Cores | Nodes 160 | 4 880 | 22 5,120 | 128 80 | 2
Operating System RHEL
Cores/Node 40 40 + 6 GPUs
(6 x 5,120 CUDA cores,
6 x 640 Tensor cores)		 40 + 4 GPUs
(4 x 2,500 CUDA cores,
4 x 320 Tensor cores)		 40 + 2 GPUs
(2 x 5,120 CUDA cores,
2 x 640 Tensor cores)
Core Type IBM Power9 IBM Power9
+6 NVIDIA Volta V100		 IBM Power9
+4 NVIDIA T4 GPUs		 IBM Power9
+2 NVIDIA Volta V100
Core Speed 2.55 GHz
Memory/Node 512 GBytes 700 GBytes 256 GBytes 512 GBytes
Accessible Memory/Node 502 GBytes 690 GBytes 246 GBytes 502 GBytes
Memory Model Shared on node. Shared on node.
Distributed across cluster.
Interconnect Type Ethernet / InfiniBand
Queue Descriptions and Limits
Priority Queue
Name		 Max Wall
Clock Time		 Max Cores
Per Job		 Comments
Highest transfer 48 Hours N/A Data transfer jobs
Down arrow for decreasing priority urgent 96 Hours N/A Designated urgent jobs by DoD HPCMP
debug 1 Hour N/A User diagnostic jobs
high 168 Hours N/A Designated high-priority projects by service/agency
frontier 168 Hours N/A Frontier projects only
cots 96 Hours N/A Abaqus and Fluent jobs
HIE 24 Hours N/A Rapid response for interactive work
interactive 12 Hours N/A Interactive jobs
standard 168 Hours N/A Normal user jobs
Lowest background 24 Hours N/A User jobs that will not be charged against the project allocation