JLSE

Evaluating future high-performance computing platforms

Joint Laboratory for System Evaluation
Joint Laboratory for System Evaluation (JLSE) is a collaboration between the CELS computing divisions including Leadership Computing Facility (LCF), Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS), Computational Science (CPS) and Data Science and Learning (DSL) with the aim of evaluating future high-performance computing platforms.

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Joint Research

Science Productivity
Engaging in joint research on performance modeling and analysis
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Platforms

Computational Resources
Managing resources used for running hardware and software prototypes for evaluation by JLSE
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Reporting Data

For the Research Community
Publishing internal and external reports on the progress of activities for the benefit of fellow users and providing feedback to vendors and the research community
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Recent Hardware

Nvidia A100

  • Gigabyte G242-Z11
  • AMD 7532 32c 2.4Ghz
  • DDR4-3200 256GB (8x32G DIMMs) RAM
  • 1x Nvidia A100 40GB PCIe 4.0
  • Mellanox ConnectX-6 EDR
  • Intel P4510 2TB NVMe

AMD GPU

  • Gigabyte G482-Z51
  • 2x 7742 64c Rome
  • 4x AMD MI50 32GB GPUs
  • Infinity Fabric
  • 256GB DDR-3200 RAM

CPL/Cooper Lake

  • Qty 2 – Supermicro SYS-240P-TNRT
  • 4 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8354H CPU @ 3.10GHz 18 cores/36 threads
  • 384GiB DDR4 3200 MHz Memory
  • 2x 1TB INTEL SSDPE2KX010T8
  • 4x Mellanox MT27800
  • 2x Intel X710 10GBASE-T
  • 2x Intel X710 10 Gigabit SFP+

Witherspoon

  • IBM Power9 servers with 2 x 20-core Power9 processors @ 2.4GHz (3.00GHz turbo mode)
  • 512GB DDR4 2666Mhz memory
  • 2 x 960GB internal SSDs
  • 1 x 1.6TB NVMe Flash adapter, 2-port 100GB EDR IB adapter
  • 2-port 1/10GbE adapter
  • 4x NVIDIA Volta V100 16GB GPUs

GPU_V100_SMX2

  • SuperMicro SuperServer 1029GQ-TVRT
  • 4x NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2 w/32GB
  • HBM2, 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6152 CPU 22c 2.10GHz
  • 192GB RAM DDR4-2666, Mellanox ConnectX-5 EDR

EPYC

  • Gigabyte R181-Z91
  • 2x AMD EPYC 7601 32c 2.20Ghz
  • 128GB RAM
  • Mellanox ConnectX-5 EDR

Neddy

  • SuperMicro SuperServer 7047GR-TPRF
  • Nvidia RTX8000 w/NVlink Bridge
  • 2x E5-2687W 8c 3.4Ghz
  • 64GB RAM
  • Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR (FDR10)

Projects by Category

Application Performance & Science

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Benchmarking

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Data & AI/Learning

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Exascale Computing Projects (ECP)

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HPC Software Development

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Programming Models

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Quantum Computing

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