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Vulcan

Vulcan is one of the largest, most capable computational resources available in the U.S. for industrial collaborators. This prodigious unclassified supercomputer is shared by the M&IC and ASC programs, with 1.5 of its 5 petaflops directly supporting NNSA’s mission to enhance U.S. economic competitiveness. Partners access Vulcan, whether for open, publishable science or business-sensitive and proprietary research, through the High Performance Computing Innovation Center.

HPCIC partners gain access to both a percentage of Vulcan for a period of time and to the entire associated infrastructure available in the world-class LC HPC environment, including subject-matter experts, network access, file systems, archive storage, and help-line support.   

In addition to supporting HPCIC efforts, Vulcan is used for NNSA research programs, academic alliances, and LLNL institutional science and technology efforts.

The 24-rack IBM Blue Gene/Q system is based on the POWER architecture. Vulcan was part of the contract that brought Sequoia to Livermore.

 

*8 login nodes: vulcanlac[1-8]

Zone
CZ
Vendor
IBM
User-Available Nodes
Login Nodes*
8
Batch Nodes
22,528
Debug Nodes
2,048
Total Nodes
24,576
CPUs
CPU Architecture
IBM PowerPC A2
Cores/Node
16
Total Cores
393,216
Memory Total (GB)
393,216
CPU Memory/Node (GB)
16
Peak Performance
Peak TFLOPS (CPUs)
5,033.2
Clock Speed (GHz)
1.6
Peak single CPU memory bandwidth (GB/s)
43
OS
RHEL/CNK
Interconnect
5D Torus
Parallel job type
multiple nodes per job
Run Command
srun
Recommended location for parallel file space
Program
ASC, M&IC, HPCIC
Password Authentication
OTP
Year Commissioned
2012
Compilers
Documentation