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About the Palmetto 2 Cluster

Palmetto 2 is Clemson University's primary high-performance computing (HPC) resource; heavily utilized by researchers, students, faculty, and staff from a broad range of disciplines.

Proposal Authors

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Statistics​

As of when this page was last updated, Palmetto 2 featured the following:

  • 1,206 compute nodes, which cumulatively contain:
    • 54,540 CPU cores
    • 351,745 GB of RAM
    • 1,615 GPUs
  • 729 nodes are equipped with 2 or more GPUs
  • 21 large-memory nodes (over 1.5 TB of RAM)
  • 3 extra-large-memory nodes (over 3 TB of RAM)
  • 250 GB home directory space for each user
  • 5 TB scratch storage space for each user
  • 10 and 25 Gbps Ethernet
  • 56, 100, and 200 Gbps Infiniband networks
  • benchmarked at 3.0 PFlops
  • 100% backed by both battery and generator power

Scheduler​

Palmetto 2 uses the Slurm Workload Manager to schedule jobs.

Slurm is a workload management tool that is designed to work with multiple Linux systems in a cluster environment. Its primary functions are is to job scheduling and resource allocation.

Condominium Model​

Palmetto cluster operates in a condominium model which allows faculty to purchase immediate access to compute nodes on the cluster. More information can be found in the Owner's Guide.