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Sherlock facts#

as of December 2022

Users#

  • 6,382 user accounts

  • 1,019 PI groups

    from all Stanford's seven Schools, SLAC, Stanford Institutes, etc.

  • 180 owner groups

Interfaces#

  • 12 login nodes

  • 3 data transfer nodes (DTNs)

Computing#

  • 3.94 PFLOPs (FP64)

    14.87 (FP32) PFLOPs

  • 1,483 compute nodes

    19 server models (from 3 different manufacturers)

  • 45,040 CPU cores

    4 CPU generations (13 CPU models)

  • 632 GPUs

    4 GPU generations (10 GPU models)

  • 33 racks

    49 PDUs (466.25 kW of average power)

Storage#

  • 5.3 PB $SCRATCH

    parallel, distributed filesystem, delivering over 200 GB/s of I/O bandwidth

  • 51.3 PB $OAK

    long term research data storage

Networking#

  • 96 Infiniband switches

    across 2 Infiniband fabrics (EDR, HDR)

  • 4,956 Infiniband cables

    spanning about 24.62 km

  • 47 Ethernet switches

Scheduler#

  • 159 Slurm partitions

  • 155,832,043 CPU.hours

    used in the last 6 months, that's over 17,789 years of computing!