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Sherlock facts#

as of July 2022

Users#

  • 6,139 user accounts

  • 986 PI groups

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

  • 168 owner groups

Interfaces#

  • 12 login nodes

  • 3 data transfer nodes (DTNs)

Computing#

  • 3.54 PFLOPs

    FP64

  • 1,397 compute nodes

    19 server models (from 3 different manufacturers)

  • 41,808 CPU cores

    4 CPU generations (12 CPU models)

  • 572 GPUs

    4 GPU generations (10 GPU models)

  • 31 racks

    49 PDUs (394.45 kW of average power)

Storage#

  • 6.1 PB $SCRATCH

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

  • 39.9 PB $OAK

    long term research data storage

Networking#

  • 96 Infiniband switches

    across 2 Infiniband fabrics (EDR, HDR)

  • 4,784 Infiniband cables

    spanning about 24.37 km

  • 47 Ethernet switches

Scheduler#

  • 150 Slurm partitions

  • 154,345,833 CPU.hours

    used in the last 6 months, that's over 17,619 years of computing!

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