Bebop Hardware Overview

Bebop has 672 compute nodes with Intel Broadwell CPUs (352 KNL nodes were previously retired). The Broadwell nodes have DDR4 memory, and 64 nodes have a 4TB HDD for scratch disk. The high-performance interconnect is Intel Omni-Path (OPA) 100G. There are 12 OPA connections to LCRC’s existing data storage system so you will have access to all of the same files between LCRC clusters.

Bebop Compute Nodes

672 Broadwell Nodes

Bebop Broadwell	Description	Per Node	Aggregate
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2695v4	2 Sockets	1,344
Cores/Threads	18 Cores/1 Thread per core	36	24,192/24,192
Memory	DDR4	128 GiB	86,016 GiB
Local SSD	4 TB (Nodes bdwd-[0001-0064])	1	256 TB

Bebop Login Nodes

There are four login nodes available to users for editing code, building code, submitting/monitoring jobs, checking usage (sbank), etc. Their full hostnames are beboploginN.lcrc.anl.gov for N equal to 1 through 6. The login nodes hardware is identical to the compute nodes. The various compilers and libraries are present on the logins, so most users should be able to build their code. All users share the same login nodes so please be courteous and respectful of your fellow users. For example, please do not run computationally or IO intensive pre- or post-processing on the logins and keep the parallelism of your builds to a reasonable level.

Individual user processes on the login nodes will be throttled temporarily for those that exceed 8 CPUs and 8GB of RAM.