About LCRC

In 2002 Argonne National Laboratory established the Laboratory Computing Project to enable and promote the use of high-performance computing (HPC) across the Laboratory in support of its varied research missions. The Laboratory Computing Resource Center was established, and in April 2003 LCRC began full operations with Argonne’s first teraflops computing cluster, Jazz. In 2010 Jazz was replaced by Fusion, with a peak performance of 30 teraflops (and still growing).

LCRC's initial objectives were to operate the computing facility, educate staff and students about HPC, and support application use and development. That approach has been very successful, and today every Argonne research division uses LCRC. As an added benefit, experience with LCRC provided the model for other facilities, e.g., TRACC, and essential expertise that helped make ALCF possible.

LCRC is available to the entire Laboratory community and their collaborators. LCRC staff continues to provide training in high-performance computing and guidance on application usage, code porting, and algorithm development. Often LCRC is the first large cluster people have used, and the largest computer available to them. In many cases LCRC has been the stepping stone for development of codes that now run at petascale at ALCF and other centers.

Laboratory Computing Resource Center Services

  • Provide mid-range supercomputing resources for Laboratory research projects, expanding our research horizons, supporting laboratory initiatives, and making us more competitive.
  • Provide user assistance and training, making science and engineering projects more successful and productive.
  • Provide a spectrum of scalable applications and tools, and train people to use them, enabling larger and more complex studies.
  • Promote datacenter efficiency and consolidation, e.g., via programmatic additions to Fusion dedicated to specific projects.

LCRC Acknowledgments
Researchers who use LCRC's computing resources are required to
acknowledge that fact in documents. The following acknowledgment is
suggested:

    We gratefully acknowledge the computing resources provided on "Fusion," a 320-node computing cluster
    operated by the Laboratory Computing Resource Center at Argonne National Laboratory.

Also, please submit copies of preprints, reprints, reports, and dissertations
in which LCRC is acknowledged to:

Gail Pieper
Argonne National Lab.
TCS/Bldg 240
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60349
email: pieper (at) mcs.anl.gov