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Laboratory-wide Research Computing (LRC) is a Berkeley Lab service designed to make high performance computing more
accessible to researchers. This service, offered by the UNIX and Cluster
Computing Group in the IT Division, will provide a large computational
resource to facilitate scientific research when it goes into production
in late Fall 2008.
Currently the LRC is anticipated to be a 190-node (1520 processor cores)
Linux cluster with a Infiniband high performance interconnect that will
have a peak performance rating of over 16 teraflops
The primary goals of the LRC will be to extend computing services to:
Meet intermittent need for compute cycles
Provide a resource for those who cannot purchase their own cluster
Provide additional compute cycles for those who currently own their own clusters
Provide ability to run larger-scale jobs for those who currently own smaller clusters
Provide an environment for scientists to benchmark applications in preparation for running on larger systems or applying for grants and supercomputing center allocations
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