HPC¶
HPC@LSU provides system administration and consultation support for the Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure (LONI) supercomputers. Any LONI member institute affiliate or collaborator of a LONI member institute affiliate may request a LONI account. A LONI account may be requested from the login request page.
View our cluster usage guide to see how to access and submit jobs
See all our available software
Available Partitions¶
Partitions were previously known as queues in PBS.
See available partitions on a cluster with:
sinfo --summarize
Production Systems¶
A list of previously supported systems is also available for those interested.
QB4¶
| Hostname | qbd.loni.org |
|---|---|
| Peak Performance/TFlops | 4,300 |
| Compute nodes | 547 |
| Processor/node | 2 32-Core |
| Processor Speed | 2.6GHz |
| Processor Type | Intel Ice Lake Xeon 64bit |
| Nodes with Accelerators | 62 |
| Accelerator Type | NVIDIA Ampere A100 |
| OS | RHEL8 |
| Vendor | Dell |
| Memory per node | 256/512/2048 GB |
| Location | Information Systems Building, Baton Rouge |
| QB4 is a 4.3 PetaFlop peak performance cluster with 35,008 CPU cores and 144 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, comprised of 547 compute nodes connected by 200 Gbps Infiniband fabric. All racks have been delivered and the cluster is expected to be in production early summer 2024. QB4 is housed in the state's Information Systems Building (ISB), located in Baton Rouge. |
QB4 Racks
- Common Features
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 Operating System
- 200 Gb/sec (NDR200) InfiniBand
- 480 CPU Compute Nodes, each with:
- Two 32-core Intel Ice Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8358 Processor) CPUs.
- 256 GB memory
- 52 2-GPU Compute Nodes, each with:
- Two 32-core Intel Ice Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8358 Processor) CPUs.
- 512 GB memory
- 2 NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs with NVLink interconnect
- 10 4-GPU Compute Nodes, each with:
- Two 32-core Intel Ice Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8358 Processor) CPUs.
- 512 GB memory
- 4 NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs with NVLink interconnect
- 5 Big Memory Nodes, each with:
- Two 32-core Intel Ice Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8358 Processor) CPUs.
- 2 TB memory
- 2 Login Nodes, with:
- Two 32-core Intel Ice Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8358 Processor) CPUs.
- 256 GB memory
- Cluster Storage
- 6.5 PB Lustre file system
QB3¶
| Hostname | qbc.loni.org |
|---|---|
| Peak Performance/TFlops | 857 |
| Compute nodes | 202 |
| Processor/node | 2 24-Core |
| Processor Speed | 2.4GHz |
| Processor Type | Intel Cascade Lake Xeon 64bit |
| Nodes with Accelerators | 8 |
| Accelerator Type | NVIDIA Volta V100 |
| OS | RHEL8 |
| Vendor | Dell |
| Memory per node | 192 GB |
| Location | Information Systems Building, Baton Rouge |
| QB3 is an 857 TeraFlop peak performance cluster with 9,696 CPU cores, comprised of 202 compute nodes connected by 100 Gbps Infiniband fabric which came on-line June 15 2020. The system is housed in the state's Information Systems Building (ISB), located in Baton Rouge. |
QB3 Racks
- Common Features
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 Operating System
- 100 Gb/sec (HDR100) InfiniBand
- 192 CPU Compute Nodes, each with:
- Two 24-core Intel Cascade Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8260 Processor) CPUs.
- 192 GB memory
- 600 GB HDD
- 8 GPU Compute Nodes, each with:
- Two 24-core Intel Cascade Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8260 Processor) CPUs.
- 192 GB memory
- 600 GB HDD
- 2 NVIDIA Volta V100 GPU's
- 2 Big Memory Nodes, each with:
- Two 24-core Intel Cascade Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8260 Processor) CPUs.
- 1.5 TB memory
- 2.5 TB HDD
- 2 Login Nodes, with:
- Two 24-core Intel Cascade Lake (Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8260 Processor) CPUs.
- 384 GB Ram
- 600G HDD
- Cluster Storage
- 1.5 PB Lustre file system