Welcome LSC Users!
The Pleiades Computational Cluster

Nodes:

Head Node
Dell 2650, 2 X 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon, 2 GB memory

Compute Nodes
128 Sun V60x servers, 2 X 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon, 2 GB memory
28 Dell 1750 servers, 2 X 3 GHz Intel Xeon, 2 GB memory

Globus RLS Node
Dell 2650, 2 X 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon, 4 GB memory

Storage:

35.1 Terabytes organized in 18 RAID-5 Dell PowerVault 220 S enclosures
14 X 146 GB 10K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI disks per enclosure
9 Dell PowerEdge 1750 file servers

Interconnect:

168-port Alcatel 7800 Gigabit Ethernet switch (1 Gigabit/second)

Important Announcements

Pleiades is regularly scheduled for a maintenance window of at least 8 business hours, 9-5 pm ET, on the first Tuesday of each month. During this period, Pleiades may be unvailable for job submission and/or data access.

An optional maintenance window is reserved for the third Tuesday of each month.

Obtain an Account

All LSC Users are required to have a Grid certificate to run jobs on the cluster. If you do not already have a Grid certificate, please obtain a certificate and then proceed to apply for an account on the cluster.

LSC User Quicklinks

+ How to submit a job?
+ What data is available?
+ What software is abailable?