How to get an Account on Lawrencium
The Lawrencium cluster is open to all Berkeley Lab researchers needing
access to high performance computing. Research collaborations are also
welcome provided that there is a LBNL PI. At this time, there is no
charge for compute cycles, but there is a nominal charge of $25/mo/user
to cover the costs of home directory storage and backups.
LBNL PIs wanting to obtain access to Lawrencium for their research project
will need to complete the
Requirements Survey and send it along with
a list of anticipated users to LRC@lbl.gov. A unique group name will be
created for the project and associated users. This group name will be
used to setup allocations and report usage.
Once the PI/project has been received by SCS, it will be added to the
new user form so that new users can associate themselves with an
established PI/project when they go to request a new account. Users
should go to http://scshelp.lbl.gov and
login using their LBNL LDAP username and password to make the request. Berkeley
Lab PIs can also use the form to submit account requests for non-LBNL
users associated with their project.
Accounts are added on a first come, first served basis. For security reasons, access to Lawrencium will be
through the use of one-time password tokens. Users will be expected
to come by bldg 50 to sign and return our user agreement in order to get
their one-time password token generator and their account.
Questions regarding setting up new projects or requesting new accounts
can be directed to LRC@lbl.gov
Allocations
Computer Time: During the first six months of operation, the IT Division will not be
using an allocation process to allocate compute time to individual projects.
Instead, usage and priority will be regulated by a scheduler policy
intended to provide a level of fairness across users. A committee
consisting of scientific division representatives will review the need
for allocations after the six month period.
Storage: Home directory space will have a quota set at 10GB per user. Users may also use the /scratch shared filesystem which has a per user hard limit
at 2TB, but older files placed there are may be purged to assure enough space
for running jobs. Home directory space is backed up on a regular basis.
Acknowledgements
Please acknowledge Lawrencium in your publications. A sample statement is:
This research used the Lawrencium computational cluster resource
provided by the IT Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(Supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231)
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