Lawrencium for Directorate Special Projects
LBNL has set
aside 20% of available Lawrencium cores for Directorate
allocation. The purpose of this allocation will be used to provide compute cycles for strategic projects and recruitment. This will vary from year to year depending on institutional
investments. A Service Unit (SU) is defined as 1 core-hour on the
current Lawrencium hardware.
Making a Request
Researchers
needing compute time on a Linux cluster can
submit their requests to Deputy Director Horst Simon through their
respective Division Director.
Allocation Mechanism An allocation of 500K SUs can be made to individual PIs to be used by their staff and collaborators.
Requirements PIs
requesting time on Lawrencium should understand the parameters of the
offered service. Lawrencium is a Linux cluster with a high speed
interconnect and parallel filesytem best suited for MPI scientific
workloads. All
PIs and their users must have accounts on Lawrencium and are subject to
the $25/mo per user account fee and standard policy regarding access
and use. At the beginning of the fiscal year period, PIs receive an allocation will have that amount applied to their project bank account. PIs
will be given the choice to either 1) Use only the allocated amount
until it runs out or 2) Use the system for normal usage and the strategic allocation will offset their regular bill until it runs
out after which prevailing usage rates apply. Allocations are expired annually. Unused amounts are not permitted to “roll over.” It is the responsibility of the PI and users to terminate Lawrencium accounts when they are no longer needed.
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