SANTANDER SUPERCOMPUTING SERVICES (SSC) FOR RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA

As a scientific-technical service of the University, the SSC is open to the use of researchers that can benefit of supercomputing in the different projects where they participate.

The service is open to research groups as well as to individual researchers.

There are two options to access the supercomputing services:

TEST SERVICE

Researchers can get direct access to an initial pool of resources to try, test and tune the applications that they intend to execute.

The initial resources granted for an initial test period of three months are the following:

-individual account with access to the login node, to edit, compile and test the application

-submission of jobs requesting up to 250 cores, for a total cpu time up to 25000 hours

-100 GB of temporal disk space

-access to available software

-best effort support from the SSC team.

The researchers interested only need to fill the data in this form, and submit it to ssc@unican.es to get access to the resources. Access will be granted as soon as possible, and typically in a few days.

Researchers are requested only to inform weekly of the progress/use of the computer (one line report) and fill a short evaluation form after the test period.

PRODUCTION SERVICE

The production service guarantees to researchers the use of the system for execution of jobs requiring large number of processors, storage space, or execution time.

To access the production service, researchers should fill the corresponding form, and send it to the service (ssc@unican.es).

Requests for allocation of resources are handled by an Access Committee, that prioritizes the use of the available resources among the different requests. If resources are available to satisfy the request, access will be granted as soon as possible, but typically, and in particular for large demands, the Comittee will meet three times annually, by the end of January, May and September, to decide.

NEXT ACCESS COMMITEE MEETING WILL BE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER 2012, REVIEWING ALL REQUESTS SENT UNTIL 30th OF SEPTEMBER.

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

Contact for this page: marco@ifca.unican.es