The Palmetto Cluster

The Palmetto cluster is Clemson University's primary high-performance computing (HPC) resource. It is heavily utilized by researchers, students, faculty, and staff from a very broad range of disciplines. External users from other universities, government agencies, and from Clemson's private-sector partners also play significant roles in supporting and using this rapidly growing resource.

Benchmarked operating at over 96 TF/s (maximal LINPACK for 13,616 cores).
Connected to Internet2's 100 GbE (gigabit Ethernet) Advanced Layer 2 Service
Ranked #15 among academic research clusters in the Nov 2012 Top500 list.
Over 1,800 compute nodes, 17,000 x86_64 cores, with 24 nVidia Tesla GPUs (and still growing).
12 to 64 GB RAM per node, with 512 GB and 2 TB shared-memory systems available.
Infiniband and Myrinet network fabrics.
218 TB OrangeFS "scratch" storage space.
Job queuing system: PBS Professional 12.0
OS: Scientific Linux 6

	The Palmetto Cluster User's Guide This comprehensive user's guide for the Palmetto cluster offers instructions and examples for a very broad range of cluster-related activites.
	Palmetto Cluster Usage Statistics Constantly updated utilization data for the Palmetto cluster.
	Palmetto Cluster Usage Reports Build and submit queries to generate reports about usage of the Palmetto cluster.