HPC at IFCA
Welcome to the support pages on supercomputing at IFCA.
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Our supercomputing services also include support for large and high-performance data storage, advanced network support, and adaptation and optimization of parallel applications.
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Altamira Supercomputing Node at University of Cantabria
The supercomputing node at the University of Cantabria is named ALTAMIRA.
Its use is offered as part of the Santander Supercomputing Services within the Scientific-Technical Services at University of Cantabria.
The current systems in the ALTAMIRA node include:
An HPC cluster, integrating IBM-idataplex dx360m4 servers, each one with 2xE5-2670 Intel Sandybridge Xeon processors, 64GB RAM, 500GB HD and all of them interconnected with InfiniBand FDR10 cards and switches from Mellanox in FAT tree toplogy, completing a system with more than 2500 cores and 10 Terabytes of memory. The peak capacity exceeds 50 Tflops.
- An small GPU based cluster, with 5 IBM-idataplex dx360m3 servers, each one with 2 GPU nVidia Tesla M2090 cards, interconnected also via Infiniband A cluster with IBM POWER7 blades, with capacity for up to 700 processes to execute intensive CPU applications
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ALTAMIRA is connected to an on-line storage system offering to users capacities up to Petabytes under the GPFS parallel file system, and unlimited archiving on tapes with 20 years lifetime.
See a short video here: https://vimeo.com/138956695 or you can download it here video.m2ts
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How to Access to Santander Supercomputing Services
Santander Supercomputing Services are available for:
Researchers at University of Cantabria, follow this link.
Researchers in Spain, through the Spanish Supercomputing Network, RES, coordinated by BSC, follow this link.
New research projects, with external institutions or with companies, follow this link.
Please, acknowledge the Usage Terms.
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Using Santander Supercomputing Services
If you already have access granted for execution of applications, see the ALTAMIRA Userguide.
If you need support for adaptation of applications, or need more information, please contact ssc@unican.es
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Acknowledgment in publications
Please, include an acknowledge to the IFCA at the University of Cantabria for the use of Altamira supercomputer with a text similar to:
We acknowledge Santander Supercomputacion support group at the University of Cantabria who provided access to the supercomputer Altamira Supercomputer at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA-CSIC), member of the Spanish Supercomputing Network, for performing simulations/analyses.