The ETNA cluster is part of the LBNL Supercluster and shares the same Supercluster infrastructure. This includes the system management software, software module farm, scheduler, storage, and backend network management.
Login and Data Transfer:
ETNA uses One Time Password (OTP) for login authentication for all the services provided below. Please also refer to the Data Transfer page for additional information.
- Login server: lrc-login.lbl.gov
- DATA transfer server: lrc-xfer.lbl.gov
- Globus Online endpoint: lbnl#lrc
Hardware Configuration:
Each compute node has dual-socket 12-core INTEL Xeon E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30 GHz processors (24 cores in total), 64 GB of physical memory. Compute nodes are connected with each other through a high performance Mellanox 56 Gbps FDR Infiniband fabric.
PARTITION | NODES | NODE LIST | CPU | CORES | MEMORY | GPU |
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etna | 170 | n0[005-174].etna0 | INTEL XEON E5-2670 v3 | 24 | 64GB | – |
etna | 3 | n0[172-174].etna0 | INTEL XEON E5-2670 v3 | 24 | 64GB | Xeon Phi |
etna | 9 | n0[175-183].etna0 | INTEL XEON E5-2623 v3 | 8 | 64GB | Tesla K80 |
Storage and Backup:
ETNA cluster users are entitled to access the following storage systems so please get familiar with them.
NAME | LOCATION | QUOTA | BACKUP | ALLOCATION | DESCRIPTION |
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HOME | /global/home/users/$USER | 12GB | Yes | Per User | HOME directory for permanent data storage |
SCRATCH | /global/scratch/$USER | none | No | Per User | SCRATCH directory with Lustre high performance parallel file system over Infiniband |
MOTEL | /clusterfs/vulcan/motel/$USER | none | No | Per User | Long-term storage of bulk data |
MOTEL2 | /clusterfs/vulcan/motel2/$USER | none | No | Per User | Long-term storage of bulk data |
PSCRATCH | /clusterfs/etna/pscratch/$USER | none | No | Per User | SCRATCH directory with Lustre high performance parallel file system over Infiniband |
NOTE: HOME, MOTEL, and MOTEL2 directories are located on a highly reliable enterprise level BlueArc storage device. Since this appliance also provides storage for many other mission critical file systems, and it is not designed for high performance applications, running large I/O dependent jobs on these file systems could greatly degrade the performance of all the file systems that are hosted on this device and affect hundreds of users, thus this behavior is explicitly prohibited. HPCS reserves the right to kill these jobs without notification once discovered. Jobs that have I/O requirement should use the SCRATCH or PSCRATCH file system which are designed specifically for that purpose.
Scheduler Configuration:
ETNA cluster uses SLURM as the scheduler to manage jobs on the cluster. To use the ETNA resource the partition “etna” must be used (“–partition=etna”) along with account “etna” (“–account=etna”). For the GPU nodes, use –partition=etna_gpu and –account=etna. Currently there is no special limitation introduced to the “etna” partition thus no QoS configuration is required to use the ETNA resources (a default “normal” QoS will be applied automatically). A standard fair-share policy with a decay half life value of 14 days (2 weeks) is enforced.
PARTITION | ACCOUNT | NODES | NODE LIST | NODE FEATURES | SHARED | QOS | QOS LIMIT |
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etna | nano | 170 | n0[005-174].etna0 | etna | Exclusive | normal | no limit |
etna | nano | 3 | n0[5183,238, 299,304].etna0 |
etna etna_phi |
Exclusive | normal | no limit |
etna_gpu | nano | 16 | n0[175-183, 299-304].etna0 | etna_gpu | Shared | normal | no limit |
etna-shared | nano | 5 | n0[000-004].etna0 | etna_share | Shared | normal | no limit |
etna_c40 | nano | 16 | n0[239-254].etna0 | etna_c40 | Exclusive | normal | no limit |
etna_bigmem | nano | 52 | n0[186-237].etna0 | etna_bigmem | Exclusive | normal | no limit |
Software Configuration:
ETNA uses Software Module Farm and Environment Modules to manage the cluster wide software installation.
Cluster Status:
Please visit here for the live status of ETNA cluster.
Additional Information:
Please send us tickets hpcshelp@lbl.gov or send email to ScienceIT@lbl.gov for any inquiries or service requests.