Table of NERSC Resources
NERSC Computational Systems
| System Name | System Type | CPU | Computational Pool | Node Interconnect | Scratch Disk | Avg. Power (KW) | |||||||
| Type | Speed (GHz) | Nodes | Cores per Node | Total Cores | Flops per Core (Gflops/sec) | Peak Performance (Tflops/sec) | Aggregate Memory |
Avg. Memory/core |
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Edison |
Cray XC30 | Intel Ivy Bridge | 2.4 | 5,586 | 24 |
134,064 |
19.2 | 2,574 | 357 TB | 2.67 GB | Aries | 7.6 PB (local) + 28 PB (global) | 1,900 |
|
Cori |
Cray XC40 |
Intel Haswell Intel KNL |
2.3 1.4 |
2,388 9,688 |
32 68 |
76,416 658,784 |
36.8 44.8 |
2,812 29,514 |
298.5 TB 1.06 PB |
4 GB DDR: 1.41 GB; MCDRAM: 0.23 GB |
Aries | 28 PB (global) | 4,200 |
|
PDSF 1 |
Linux | Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Haswell | 2.6, 2.5, 2.3 | 111 | 16, 20, 32 | 2,304 | Sandy Bridge: 21, Ivy Bridge: 20, Haswell: 37 | 62 | 8.8 TB | 3.8 GB | InfiniBand | 200 - 600 GB per node | - |
|
Genepool 2 |
Various vendor systems | Nehalem, Opteron | 2.27, 2.67 | 547 | 8, 24, 32, 80 | 4,680 | 9.08, 10.68 | 42.8 | 33.7 TB | 7.36 GB | Ethernet | 3.9 PB (global) | - |
1) PDSF is a special-use system hosted by NERSC for the High Energy Physics and Nuclear Science community.
2) Genepool is a cluster dedicated to the DOE Joint Genome Institute's computing needs.
Get more information at NERSC computational systems.
NERSC Data Storage Resources
| File System | Path | Type | Peak Performance | Default Quota | Backed Up? | Purge Policy |
| Global Homes | $HOME | GPFS | Not intended IO jobs |
40 GB |
Yes | Not purged |
| Project | /project/projectdirs/projectname | GPFS | 130 GB/Second | 1 TB 1,000,000 Inodes |
No | Not purged |
| Common | /global/common/software/projectname | GPFS | Intended for software stacks | 10 GB 1,000,000 inodes | No | No purged |
| Edison local scratch | $SCRATCH (on Edison) | Lustre | 168 GB/Second (across 3 file systems) | 10 TB 5,000,000 Inodes |
No | Files not accessed for 8 weeks are deleted |
| Cori local scratch | $SCRATCH (on Cori), $CSCRATCH (from other systems) | Lustre | 700 GB/Second | 20 TB 10,000,000 Inodes |
No | Files not accessed for 12 weeks are deleted |
| Cori Burst Buffer | $DW_JOB_STRIPED, $DW_PERSISTENT_STRIPED_XXX | DataWarp | 1.7 TB/s, 28M IOP/s | none | No | Data is deleted at the end of every job, or at the end of the lifetime of the persistent reservation |
| Archive (HPSS) | Typically accessed via hsi or htar inside of NERSC | HPSS | 50 GB/s to disk cache | Allocation dependent | No | Not purged |
For more details on the best usage of these file systems see the NERSC Data Storage Resources page.
