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Please read it carefully and if any doubt arises don't hesitate to contact our support mail (see below in Getting help).

Requesting an account

Altamira users include researchers at the University of Cantabria, researchers who get execution time at the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES), and other researchers. The assignment of an account and execution time requires a request form, contact us in case of doubt or for urgent requests.

System Overview

Altamira includes 158 main compute nodes and 2 1 login server.

Main compute nodes have two Intel Sandybridge E5-2670 processors, each one with 8 cores operating at 2.6 GHz and a cache of 20MB, 64 GB of RAM memory (i.e. 4 GB/core) and 500 GB local disk.

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Slurm has partitions to allocate jobs. In altamira, a group of nodes with same features are assigned to a partition.  This following table resumes the main partitions and the principal properties of each of them. By default, compute is configured if --patition partition option is not defined in the job. Set it to res if you are coming from a RES project or use the testing partition for test jobs before submitting to the production partition (compute). Test jobs in the testing queue has a limit of 8 cpus and 3 hours of time as you can see below at qos.

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Once you have a username and its associated password you can get into Altamira system, connecting to one of the the 2 login nodes at login1.ifca.es in the case of the first login or login2the only one login endpoint available at login1.ifca.esfor the second one (see Login node to know more information about the login nodes). The password provided is temporal, you must change this initial password after connecting to IPA. Also use a strong password (do not use a word or phrase from a dictionary and do not use a word that can be obviously tied to your person). 

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