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SCOUT SCOUT
SCOUT is an IBM Power9 system located at the ARL DSRC. It has 22 Training nodes, each with 6 nVidia V100 GPUs, 128 Inference nodes, each with 4 nVidia T4 GPUs, and 2 Visualization nodes, each with 2 nVidia GPUs (a total of 152 compute nodes or 6,080 cores). It has 45 TB of memory.

Node Configuration
Login Training Inference Visualization
Total Nodes 4 22 128 2
Processor IBM POWER9 IBM POWER9 IBM POWER9 IBM POWER9
Processor Speed 2.55 GHz 2.55 GHz 2.55 GHz 2.55 GHz
Sockets / Node 2 2 2 2
Cores / Node 40 40 40 40
Total CPU Cores 160 880 5,120 80
Usable Memory / Node 502 GB 690 GB 246 GB 502 GB
Accelerators / Node None 6 4 2
Accelerator n/a NVIDIA V100 PCIe 3 NVIDIA T4 PCIe 3 NVIDIA V100 PCIe 3
Memory / Accelerator n/a 32 GB 16 GB 16 GB
Storage on Node 1.4 TB PCIe 12 TB PCIe 2.1 TB PCIe 5.9 TB PCIe
Interconnect InfiniBand EDR InfiniBand EDR InfiniBand EDR InfiniBand EDR
Operating System RHEL RHEL RHEL RHEL

File Systems on SCOUT
Path Formatted Capacity File System Type Storage Type User Quota Minimum File Retention
/p/home ($HOME) 132 TB GPFS HDD None None
/p/work1 ($WORKDIR) 1.2 PB GPFS HDD None 21 Days
/p/scratch1 ($LSCRATCH) Varies by node type XFS Varies by node type None None
/p/cwfs ($CENTER) 3.3 PB GPFS HDD None 120 Days
/p/app ($PROJECTS_HOME) 90 TB GPFS HDD None None