*Boraxo's 2 login nodes are: borax[2,5]

Job Limits

Each LC platform is a shared resource. Users are expected to adhere to the following usage policies to ensure that the resources can be effectively and productively used by everyone. You can view the policies on a system itself by running:

news job.lim.MACHINENAME

Web version of Boraxo Job Limits

Boraxo is an M&IC resource to be used for serial and on-node parallelism only. Jobs are scheduled per core. This system does not have a high-speed interconnect.

Hardware

Each Boraxo node contains dual-socket Intel Xeon Gold processors (2.3 GHz) each with 18 cores for a total of 36 cores/node and 192 GiB memory/node.

Schedule

Batch jobs are scheduled through SLURM.

  • Interactive login: boraxo[2,3]
  • pdebug: boraxo[8-11]
  • pbatch use: boraxo[12-64]
Maximum memory size and duration of jobs on boraxo
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          INTERACTIVE           BATCH
                          MEMORY    CPU         MEMORY   CPU
    boraxo[2,3]           192 GiB    30 min     - Interactive Only -
    boraxo[8-11] (pdebug) 192 GiB    30 min     - Interactive Only -
    boraxo{12-64](pbatch) - Batch Only -        192 GiB    200 hrs
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Pdebug is intended for debugging, visualization, and other inherently interactive work. It is NOT intended for production work. Do not use pdebug to run batch jobs.  Do not chain jobs to run one after the other. Individuals who misuse the pdebug queue in this or any similar manner will be denied access to running jobs in the pdebug queue.

Interactive access to a batch node is allowed only while you have a batch job running on that node, and only for the purpose of monitoring your job. When logging into a batch node, be mindful of the impact your work has on the other jobs running on the node.

Multiple users can run on the same node.  If the number of cores is not specified, the job is allocated to one core.  Use the following syntax in your batch script to specify the actual number of cores needed:

    MSUB SCRIPT:    #MSUB -l ttc=number_of_cores
    SBATCH SCRIPT:  #SBATCH  -n  number_of_cores

ALWAYS use the msub -l ttc or sbatch -n option when your job will use more than one task.

Scratch Disk Space: Consult CZ File Systems Web Page: https://lc.llnl.gov/fsstatus/fsstatus.cgi

Documentation

Please call or send email to the LC Hotline if you have questions. LC Hotline | phone: 925-422-4531 |   email: lc-hotline@llnl.gov
Zone
CZ
Vendor
Penguin
User-Available Nodes
Login Nodes*
2
Batch Nodes
53
Debug Nodes
4
Total Nodes
59
CPUs
CPU Architecture
Intel Xeon Gold 6140
Cores/Node
36
Total Cores
2,124
Memory Total (GB)
11,328
CPU Memory/Node (GB)
192
Peak Performance
Peak TFLOPS (CPUs)
58.1
Clock Speed (GHz)
2.3
Peak single CPU memory bandwidth (GB/s)
77
OS
TOSS 4
Interconnect
N/A
Parallel job type
multiple jobs per node
Run Command
srun
Recommended location for parallel file space
/p/lustre[1,2]
Program
ASC
Class
CTS-1
Password Authentication
OTP
Year Commissioned
2020
Compilers

Compilers (TOSS 3)
Documentation

Introduction to LC Resources
Linux Clusters Overview