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HPC Systems

HPC Facilities currently available at HPC-Europa2 Centres providing Access
Centre HPC Systems Number of Processors Peak Performance
CINECA IBM SP6, p575 4.7 GHzI
IBM BlueGene/P 0.85 GHz
5120
4096
101 TFlop/s
14 TFlop/s
EPCC Cray XT4/X2 (scalar)
Cray XT4/X2 (vector)
IBM BlueGene/L
AMD Opteron
22656
112
2048
34
208 TFlop/s
2 TFlop/s
5,7 TFlop/s
177 GFlop/s
BSC MareNostrum (Barcelona)
Margerit (Madrid)
La Palma (La Palma de GC)
Altamira (Santander)
Picasso (Málaga)
Tirant (Valencia)
Caesar Augusta (Zaragoza)
10240
2744
512
512
512
512
512
94,2 TFlop/s
24,4 TFlop/s
4,5 TFlop/s
4,5 TFlop/s
4,5 TFlop/s
4,5 TFlop/s
4,5 TFlop/s
HLRS SX-8
NEC NEHALEM CLUSTER
NEC SX9
HLRS GRID CLUSTER

CRAY XT5M
576
5600
192
545 nodes

896
1.2 TFlop/s
62 TFlop/s
19.2 TFlop/s
46 TFlop/s + 2.8 TFlop/s (single precision) + 9.3 TFlop/s (Nvidia)
8.5 TFlop/s
GENCI-CINESmmm SGI ALTIX ICE 12288 147 Tflop/s
SARA Power 575, p6 4.7 GHz, Infiniband (IBM 2009) 3456 cores 64.97 TFlop/s
CSC Cray XT4/XT5
HP ProLiant supercluster
10864
2176
102.3 TFlop/s
11.3 TFlop/s


In some centres, also advanced visualisation systems will be available. For example, CINECA will offer a laboratory for scientific visualization operating a Virtual Theatre for the development and the deployment of virtual reality, data insight application solutions

The HPC-Europa2 project is funded by the European Commission - DG Research in the Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n° 228398

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