High Performance Computing at Berkeley Lab

The Laboratory Research Computing program provides Lawrencium, a 942-node (23,424 computational cores) Linux cluster to its researchers needing access to computation to facilitate scientific discovery. The system, which consists of shared nodes and PI-contributed Condo nodes is equipped with an infiniband interconnect and has access to a 3 PB parallel filesystem storage system. Large memory, GPU and Intel Phi Knight's Landing nodes are also available. Other services include a condo compute service that allows PIs to purchase compute equipment to add into the Lawrencium cluster, a storage condominium service that allows PIs to purchase storage shelves that can be hosted in our storage infrastructure,  and an Open OnDemand service which provides web portal access to Lawrencium.

We offer comprehensive Linux cluster support, including pre-purchase consulting, procurement assistance, installation, and ongoing support for PI-owned clusters. Our HPC User Services consultants can also help you to get your applications performing well. UC Berkeley PIs can also make use of our services through the very successful Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) program available through UC Berkeley Research IT. Altogether the group manages over 70,000 compute cores and over 3100 users across 532 research projects for the Lab and UC Berkeley.